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by nextaccountic 751 days ago
M*R^2 is understandable but what's this raised to 5th power stuff in rho*r^5? And is this lowercase r the same as the uppercase R?
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Mass scales like density times radius cubed. The first M would technically be a function of position. So you would integrate over slices of varying M not just because of varying density.