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3.4 Normal gravity

The normal gravity $ \gamma_{0}$ is a function of latitude. Compute $ \gamma_{0}$ by this formula (Heiskanen and Moritz, 1967, p.76, eq. 2-109):

$\displaystyle \gamma_{0}(\varphi) = \gamma_{a}\frac{1+\kappa \sin^2\varphi} {\sqrt{1-e^{2}\sin^{2}\varphi}}$   with$\displaystyle \quad \kappa=\frac{b\gamma_{b}-a\gamma_{a}}{a\gamma_{a}}$ (15)



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