Consider a massive body of arbitrary shape and a spherical surface that is exterior to and does

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Consider a massive body of arbitrary shape and a spherical surface that is exterior to and does not contain the body. Show that the average value of the potential due to the body taken over the spherical surfaces is equal to the value of the potential at the center of the sphere.
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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