One day when standing at the equator, you imagine what orbit you would follow if the Earth
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One day when standing at the equator, you imagine what orbit you would follow if the Earth were suddenly to shrink to the size of a marble with its mass unaltered. a. Imagine that your speed does not change immediately after the Earth shrinks. What is your angular momentum, L, in terms of your mass, the radius of the Earth, and its period? b. At the closest point that you approach it, what would be your distance from the center of this marble-sized Earth, expressed as a fraction of the Earth’s original radius?
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Fundamentals of Physics
ISBN: 978-0471758013
8th Extended edition
Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick
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