As you pilot your spacecraft in a circular orbit about the Earth, you notice the space station you want to dock with severalmiles ahead in the same orbit. To catch up with the space station, should you fire your accelerating rockets or fire your decelerating rockets?

Q: A circle is a special ellipse: one with the foci at one point. The eccentricity of a circle is 0.…

A: Required : Estimated value of eccentricity.

Q: A satellite is orbiting around a planet in a circular orbit. The radius of the orbit, measured from…

A: R=1.8×107 mM=4.8×1024 kg From the conservation of energy, 12mv2=GMm2R, here G is gravitational…

Q: In what kind of gravitational field are Newton’s laws valid?

A: Newton’s laws are an approximation of the gravitational effects. Thus, they are in weak…

Q: Starting from Newton’s law of universal gravitation, show that for a small object of mass m in a…

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Q: An astronaut circling the earth at an altitude of 400 km is horrified to discover that a cloud of…

A: The astronaut is in an orbit above the earth's surface at a height of 400 km.  Since the astronaut…

Q: How fast (in m/sec and in mph) would the ISS (International Space Station) have to travel to…

A: The ISS is moving in a fixed circular orbit. Thus, the centrifugal force must be equal to the…

Q: It is possible to experience weightlessness in a spacecraft flying through space in any set…

A: Question 1: They are weightless because there is no external contact force pushing or pulling upon…

Q: If the speed of a satellite of mass “m" in orbit around Earth is “v" at a distance “T" from Earth's…

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Q: Calculate the escape velocity from the surface of a world with mass 2.80 x 1024 kg and radius 6.50 x…

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Q: For an orbiting space station, ideally, the occupants would experience simulated gravity. One way to…

A: When the orbiting space station moves on the circular path with some velocity, then there will the…

Q: If a satellite circled Earth at a distance equal to the Earth– Moon distance, how long would it take…

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Q: Suppose that a satellite is moving at a speed of 2,000 m/s in a circular orbit around a planet. If…

A: Let the mass of the satellite is denoted by m moving with velocity v and acceleration a. The…

Q: Calculate the gravitational force between two masses, M1 = 20 kg and M2 = 25 kg, whose geometric…

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Q: A satellite is traveling around a planet in a circular orbit with radius R. It moves in a constant…

A: Consider a satellite having mass m orbiting around a planet in radius R with speed v and the…

Q: Consider a space pod somewhere between Earth and the Moon, at just the right distance so that the…

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Q: Which of the following statements about a Spacex Starlink satellite orbiting the Earth are true?…

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Q: When a satellite in circular orbit slows, perhaps due to the firing of retro rocket, it ends up…

A: As the satellite follows a circular orbit, it always obeys the law of conservation of angular…

Q: What is the magnitude of gravitational force between two 1-kg bodies that are 1 m apart?

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Q: What is difference between inertial mass and gravitational mass of body?

A: Inertial mass measures the resistance of an object to being accelerated by a force.

Q: What is the direction of the gravitational acceleration of an object that is freely moving donwards?

A: Given data:  Object is moving freely towards downward Required: The direction of the gravitational…

Q: If the legendary apple of Newton could be released from rest on the surface of a neutron star with a…

A: Write a given values of this question. M=1.6×1.99×1030kgdr=2×3.5cm=0.070mr=18km=18000m

Q: The gravitational force between masses M1 and M2 separated by a distance R is F. What will be the…

A: Gravitational force is the force between two masses when they are separated by a distance then they…

Q: At what part of elliptical orbit does an Earth satellite have the greatest speed? The lowest speed?

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Q: The mass and radius of a planet are M and R, respectively. A satellite of mass m orbits the planet…

A: The angular momentum is given by  L = mv r

Q: During an Apollo lunar landing mission, the commandmodule continued to orbit the Moon at an altitude…

A: Here, T=2πGMr32

Q: A space probe is launched from earth headed for deep space. At a distance of 10,000 miles from…

A: The force of attraction between any two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and…

Q: YOU WISH TO PUT A 1000-KG SATELLITE INTO A CIRCULAR ORBIT 300 KM ABOVE THE EARTH'S SURFACE. WHAT…

A: Given data, Mass of the satellite = 1000 kg Distance of the orbit from the Earth's surface = 300 km…

Q: For a planet of uniform density, how would the magnitude of the gravitational field halfway to the…

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Q: A satellite is in an elliptical orbit at altitudes ranging from 250 km to 910 km. At its highest…

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Q: The radius of Jupiter is 11 times that of earth, and the free-fall acceleration near its surface is…

A: In low orbit, the speed of a satellite is given as, v=gr

Q: Earth is 1.5 × 1011 m from the Sun. Mercury is 5.7 × 1010 m from the Sun. How does the gravitational…

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Q: Satellite X of mass m orbits planet X of mass M at a center-to-center distance r. Satellite Y or…

A: Given:for system Xmass of satellite = mmass of planet = Mdistance between them = rfor system Ymass…

Q: What is the speed and period of the international space station provided that orbital radius is 6778…

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Q: the orbital velocity of this planet around the Sun be faster or slower than the orbital velocity of…

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Q: Evaluate the magnitude of gravitational force (in N) between two 9 kg spherical steel balls…

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Q: At which of the indicated positions does the satellite in elliptical orbit experience the greatest…

A: The formula for the gravitational force is: Since the masses remains the same. Therefore, the…

Q: A satellite is orbiting the earth in low orbit (160 km above the surface of the earth). If the…

A: Given:Distance between the earth’s surface and satellite = 160 kmMass of the earth = 5.972 X 10 24…

Q: On a distant planet, a ball is thrown downward from a height of 12 m.  The ball has an initial speed…

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Q: What Is The Minimum Distance Between Two Geostationary Satellites?

A: A geostationary orbit can be achieved solely at an altitude near to 35,786 kilometers i.e. 22,236…

Q: Planet X orbits the star Omega with a “year” that is 200 earth days long. Planet Y circles Omega at…

A: TX = 200 daysRY = 4RyTY = ? Kepler's third law states that the square of the orbital period of a…

Q: A communications satellite with a 24-hour period hovers over a fixed point on Earth and, to Earth…

A: The rotational velocity of the Earth is maximum at the equator.

Q: A spacecraft is in a circular Earth orbit at an altitude of 5800 km. By how much will its altitude…

A: Given: Altitude of space craft = 5800 km.

Central Force

Central force is the force that acts along the center of mass of one body to the center of mass of another body. Its direction from or away from a point on a body to another is called the center of the force. Such forces include gravitational force between two massive objects or electrostatic forces between two charged particles. So from atoms to planets, the central forces play an important role in shaping our daily lives. One of the remarkable features of central forces is that they are conservative, i.e. the total energy of a central force system can always be expressed as a gradient of a potential energy function.