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The law of ellipse simple explanation

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Kepler's first law - sometimes referred to as the law of ellipses - explains that planets are orbiting the sun in a path described as an ellipse. ... The resulting shape will be an ellipse. An ellipse is a special curve in which the sum of the distances from every point on the curve to two other points is a constan

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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) orbits 569 km above Earth’s surface. If HST has a tangential speed of 7,750 m/s, how long is HS

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Answer: 5,640 s (94 minutes)

Explanation:

the tangential speed of the HST is given by

$v=\frac{2\pi r}{T}$ (1)

where

$2\pi r$ is the length of the orbit

r is the radius of the orbit

T is the orbital period

In our problem, we know the tangential speed: $v=7,750 m/s$ . The radius of the orbit is the sum of the Earth's radius and the distance of the HST above Earth's surface:

$r=6.38\cdot 10^6 m+569,000 m=6.95\cdot 10^6 m$

So, we can re-arrange equation (1) to find the orbital period:

$T=\frac{2 \pi r}{v}=\frac{2 \pi (6.95\cdot 10^6 m/s)}{7,750 m/s}=5,640 s$

Dividing by 60, we get that this time corresponds to 94 minutes.

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Somebody please explain how to solve this. Thanks in advance!

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2. -A flea pushes a speck of dirt 1 cm

3. -A farmer pushes a 2 kg wheelbarrow 20 m

4. -A cannon launches a 3 kg cannonball a distance of 200

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6. -Space shuttle Atlantis launches from the ground into near-Earth orbit

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reviews the approach taken in problems such as this one. A bird watcher meanders through the woods, walking 0.916 km due east, 0

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Displacement: 2.230 km Average velocity: 1.274 $\frac{km}{h}$

Explanation:

Let's represent displacement by the letter S and the displacement in direction 49.7° as A. Displaement is a vector, so we need to decompose all the bird's displacement into their X-Y compoments. Let's go one by one:

0.916 km due east is an horizontal direction and cane be seen as direction towards the negative side of X-axis.

0.928 km due south is a vertical direction and can be seen as a direction towards the negative side of Y-axis.
3.52 km in a direction of 49.7° has components on X and Y axes. It is necessary to break it down using trigonometry,

First of all. We need to sum all the X components and all the Y componets.

∑ $Sx = Ax -0.916$ ⇒ ∑ $Sx = [tex]3.52cos(49.7) - 0.916$