Question: An astronaut inside a spacecraft, which protects her from harmful radiation, is orbiting a black hole at a distance of 1 3 , 5 0

An astronaut inside a spacecraft, which protects her from harmful radiation, is orbiting a black hole at
a distance of 13,500 km from its event horizon. The black hole is 5250 times the mass of the sun. (a)
Show that it has a Schwarzchild radius of approximately 1.55104 km. The astronaut is positioned
inside the spaceship such that one of her 0.0350 kg ears is 6.3 cm farther from the black hole than the
center of mass of the spacecraft and the other ear is 6.3 cm closer. (a) What is the tension between her
ears? Would the astronaut find it difficult to keep from being torn apart by the gravitational forces?
(Since her whole body orbits with the same angular velocity, one ear is moving too slowly for the radius
of its orbit and the other is moving too fast. Hence her head must exert forces on her ears to keep them
in their orbits.)(b) Is the center of gravity of her head at the same point as the center of mass? Explain.

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