A spherically symmetric gravitational system of particles has a mass density
where is a constant. A test mass can undergo circular motion under the influence of the gravitational field of particles. Its speed as a function of distance from the centre of the system is represented by – [2008]
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i.e., graph is a straight line passing through origin.