Fundamentals of Physics, Volume 1, Chapter 1-20
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Author: David Halliday
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 13, Problem 74P
The mysterious visitor that appears in the enchanting story The Little Prince was said to come from a planet that “was scarcely any larger than a house!” Assume that the mass per unit volume of the planet is about that of Earth and that the planet does not appreciably spin. Approximate (a) the free-fall acceleration on the planet's surface and (b) the escape speed from the planet.
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