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Assuming the earth to be a uniform sphere of radius 6400 km and density `5.5 g cm^(-3)` , find the value of g on its surface . Given G = `6.66 xx 10^(-11) Nm^(2)kg^(-2)`

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`9.82 ms^(-2)`
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