Suppose it were possible to drill a frictionless cylindrical channel along a diameter of the Earth from one side of the Earth to another. A body dropped into such a channel will only feel the gravitational pull of mass within a sphere of radius equal to the distance of the mass from the center of the Earth. The density of the Earth is 5.52x 10° kg/m? and G = 6.67× 10-11 N-m?/kg?. The mass will oscillate with a period of (A 84.4 min. (B 1130 h. 27.2 d. 24.0 h. E 169 min.

Suppose it were possible to drill a frictionless cylindrical channel along a diameter of the Earth from one side of the Earth to another. A body dropped into such a channel will only feel the gravitational pull of mass within a sphere of radius equal to the distance of the mass from the center of the Earth. The density of the Earth is 5.52x 10° kg/m? and G = 6.67× 10-11 N-m?/kg?. The mass will oscillate with a period of (A 84.4 min. (B 1130 h. 27.2 d. 24.0 h. E 169 min.

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