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The force due to gravity on an object with mass m at a height h above the surface of the earth is
where R is the radius of the earth and g is the acceleration due to gravity for an object on the surface of the earth.
(a) Express F as a series in powers of h/R.
(b) Observe that if we approximate F by the first term in the series, we get the expression
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