double ring
What you learned in the general derivation of the gravitational multipole expansion, can now be applied to this specific example of a a double ring system. You will understand better how the details of the shape of a dumb-bell relative to a double ring system determine the corrections to the baseline value of their gravitational energy.
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On the slide with the expression for the quadrupole energy, three special configurations are drawn for the dumb-bell and the double ring (alpha>0, alpha=0, alpha<0). Predict the lowest-energy orientation of the dumb-bell in each of these three cases (don’t calculate, just think).
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