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The gravitational potential due to uniform disks and rings

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The gravitational potential due to thin uniform disks and rings is obtained in closed form in terms of complete elliptic integrals.

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  • Byrd, P. F. and Friedman, M. D.: 1971,Handbook of Elliptic Integrals for Engineers and Scientists, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag.

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, Pasadena, 91109, USA

    Harry Lass

  2. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Leon Blitzer

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Lass, H., Blitzer, L. The gravitational potential due to uniform disks and rings. Celestial Mechanics 30, 225–228 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232189

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