In my physics class, the professor said that (theoretically) if we could drill through the center of the Earth and drop a rock down the hole, the acceleration due to gravity would decrease linearly as the rock descended to the center. Then in my Geophysics class I learned about some theorem (forget what it was exaclty) that said you could treat the gravity of an object as if all the mass of the object were concentrated at its center. If the latter were the case, the rock would continue to accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 all the way through it's fall to the center.
2006-10-15
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