A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a star. If it were to orbit,

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A spaceship makes a circular orbit with period T around a star. If it were to orbit, at the same distance, a star with three times the mass of the original star, would the new period (in terms of T) be

(a) 3T,

(b) T√3,

(c) T,

(d) T/√13, or

(e) T/3?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0133977981

14th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

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