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Gravitational potential and potential energy

Question

If one wants to remove all the mass of earth to infinity in order to break it up completely. The amount of energy that needs to supplied will be  x5GM2R where x is______ (Round off to the Nearest Integer)
(M is the mass of earth, R is the radius of earth and G is the gravitational constant)
 

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Solution

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E=035GMe2Re=35GMe2Re  (Selfenergy) So,   x=3



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