An Earth satellite moves in a circular orbit 680 km above Earth's surface with a period of 98.15 min. What are (a) the speed and
(b) the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the satellite
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Answer:
Explanation:
We must use conservation of linear momentum before and after the collision,
Before the collision we have:
where these are the masses are initial velocities of both players.
After the collision we have:
since they clong together, acting as one body.
This means we have:
Or:
Which for our values is: