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A 200kg communications satellite is placed into a circular orbit around earth with a radius of 4.23 x 10^7 m (26,300 miles). A) find the gravitational force on the satellite. B) use the equation for
A 200kg communications satellite is placed into a circular orbit around earth with a radius of 4.23 x 10^7 m (26,300 miles).
A) find the gravitational force on the satellite.
B) use the equation for centripetal force to compute the speed of the satellite.
C) show that the period of the satellite - the time it takes to complete one orbit - is 1 day. (The distance it travels during one orbit is 2(pie) or 6.28, times the radius.) this is a geosynchronous orbit: the satellite stays above a fixed point on earth’s equator.
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