Add centrifugal potential to Ellipsoid and Sphere #182
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This PR allows one to compute the centrifugal potential of a rotating Sphere of Ellipsoid. The equations are simple. For the Ellipsoid class, I used the definition of the prime radius of curvature to compute the perpendicular distance to the rotation axis:$(N(\phi) + h) \cos\phi$ , where $\phi$ is geodetic latitude and $h$ is ellipsoidal height.
A separate PR will implement this for triaxial ellipsoids, as we will need to change how we handle
longitude_semimajor_axis
.Relevant issues/PRs:
Relevant to #151