Show the relationship between acceleration due to gravity and radius of the earth
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As the earth is an oblate spheroid, its radius near the equator is more than its radius near poles. Since for a source mass, the acceleration due to gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the radius of the earth, it varies with latitude due to the shape of the earth.
Formula: g = GM/r2
Dimensional Formula: M0L1T-2
Values of g in CGS: 980 cm s-2
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