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If the earth were a homegeneous sphere and a straight hole was bored in it through its centre, so when a body is dropped in the hole, it will excutes SHM. Determine the time period of its oscillation . Radius of the earth is `6.4 xx 10^(5)` m and `g=9.8 ms^(-2)`

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