Once again you are Sergei Korolev, chief Sovict rocket scientist, and just cannot stop developing the bright idea of putting a big hunk of metal and clectronics into orbit around Earth - now with your good friend Yuri Gagarin inside! You call it Vostok 1(your Sputnik days are behind you) and wish to place it into a circular orbit above the carth's surface with a lincar velocity ofv=7.60 x 10 m/s. What is the height of the orbit above the earth's surface and what is its period? The carth's radius is 6.38 x 10° m and its mass is 5.98 x 1024 kg.

Once again you are Sergei Korolev, chief Sovict rocket scientist, and just cannot stop developing the bright idea of putting a big hunk of metal and clectronics into orbit around Earth - now with your good friend Yuri Gagarin inside! You call it Vostok 1(your Sputnik days are behind you) and wish to place it into a circular orbit above the carth's surface with a lincar velocity ofv=7.60 x 10 m/s. What is the height of the orbit above the earth's surface and what is its period? The carth's radius is 6.38 x 10° m and its mass is 5.98 x 1024 kg.

The Solar System

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Chapter5: Gravity

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