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Q. There is a spherical cavity inside a uniform sphere of density    . Its centre is at a distance l from the centre of the sphere. Find the strength of the gravitational field inside the cavity.

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consider d cavity as d sphere wid -ve density
thus net result wil b due to d complete sphere wid +ve density & d other sphere wid -ve density
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it is not complete

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wats not complete
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See the picture,
                     Consider the Grey sphere to be the big sphere and the yellow sphere to be smaller one with negative density( 1. We are applying superposition principle . 2. So if u superimpose the 2 u shud get the sphere on the LHS and hence it must have neg.density)
 
 
Now within the first sphere i have made dotted sphere of radius l from the center, from which we can calculate the gravitational field using the formula for a distance l.
 
Now do that for other sphere.(but at any other pt).
 
Now vector addn , u 'll get a constant value. A variant of this in electrostatics was asked in 2007 paper btw.
 
I 'll put the ans tomm. ,need to go to sleep. (sorry , but u can get it from this pt)

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It's simple
 
See  E = GM/ r^3  r
            = 4/3 pi  r .......................... ( 1 )
( M is the mass enclosed )
      fist suppose that the cavity was not there . And we are interested in finding E at the point p from the centre of the cavity . The point that we are considering is at r from the centre of the big sphere .
 
So we can write
                               r = p + l ........................ ( 2 ) 
 now we can write that
 
          E ( due to solid sphere ) = E ( due to sphere with its cavity ) + E ( due to solid cavity )
 
so,  E ( due to sphere with its cavity )
 
 =            E ( due to solid sphere ) - E ( due to solid cavity ) .............. ( 3 )
 
Now using ( 1 ) & ( 3 )
 
    we have reqd E = 4/3 pi  ( r - p )
                             = 4/3 pi  l         ( from ( 2 ) )
which is constant throughout the cavity 
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