A spotlight on the ground shines on a wall 15 meters away. A man 1.8 meters tall walks away from the spotlight toward the buildi
ng. Write the height of the shadow (s) as a function of the distance (d) from the man to the building.
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the distance of the orbiting object to Earth.
In fact, we know that the gravitational force that keeps the object in circular motion around the Earth is equal to the centripetal force, so we can write:
If we re-arrange the equation, we find an expression for the tangential speed of the object:
and we see that it depends on 3 quantities: G, M (the mass of the Earth) and r (the distance of the object from the Earth).
When a satellite is revolving into the orbit around a planet then we can say
net centripetal force on the satellite is due to gravitational attraction force of the planet, so we will have
now we can say that kinetic energy of satellite is given as
also we know that since satellite is in gravitational field of the planet so here it must have some gravitational potential energy in it
so we will have
so we can say that energy from the fuel is converted into kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy of the satellite