Talk:Newton's theorem

Another meaning?

In Leonard Susskind's Lecture series (Stanford) Theoretical Minimum, he repeatedly invokes what he calls Newton's Theorem. (http:\\theoreticalminimum.com) see for example his first lecture Winter 2013 on Cosmology. He claims that the theorem is that the net gravitational force between a particle and a (uniform) distribution of particles is exactly the same as the sum of the distribution's mass centered at the center of mass with the sum (integral) extending in a sphere with a radius extending from the center to the particle. Mass exterior to this radius exerts no net effect. I solved this integral as an undergraduate, and was not familiar with this application of the name. Is this another meaning of the term Newton's Theorem?Abitslow (talk) 18:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to know whether the thing Susskind calls "Newton's theorem" is covered, you might be better off asking this question in the Portal:Mathematics or Portal:Science. However it turns out that there is subject which is called newton's theorem in literature indeed, it certainly shoulded be added here.--Kmhkmh (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]