A tunnel is drilled 1.0 km straight down into Earth
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Problem
A tunnel is drilled 1.0 km straight down into Earth, and a hill rises 1.0 km above the surrounding plain. Without doing a numerical calculation, explain which location—the bottom of the tunnel or the top of the hill—has the smaller value of acceleration due to gravity and why.