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Suppose we rewrite (Version 1 of) the above-highlighted Key integral expression such that the (primed) coordinate location of each mass element is mapped from cylindrical coordinates to a toroidal-coordinate system whose anchor ring cuts through the meridional plane at the cylindrical-coordinate location, . This desired mapping is handled via the pair of relations,
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and the corresponding expression for each differential mass element is,
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This gives, what we will refer to as the,
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Gravitational Potential of an Axisymmetric Mass Distribution (Version 2) |
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where the square of the argument of the elliptic integral is,
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