Question

Modeled after the two satellites problem (slide 12 in Lecture13, Universal gravity), imagine now if the period of the satellite is exact 37.25 hours, the earth mass is 5.98 x 1024 kg, and the radius of the earth is 3958.8 miles, what is the distance of the satellite from the surface of the earth in MILES? Use G=6.67x 10 -11 Nm2/kg2. Your answer could be a large number on the order of tens of thousands, just put in the raw number you get, for example, 12345.67.

Answer 1