Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 12 - Gravity - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 411: 48

Answer

$2.40\times 10^4Km$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required distance at apogee as follows: $\frac{1}{r_a}=\frac{1}{r_p}+\frac{v_a^2-v_p^2}{2GM}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\frac{1}{r_a}=\frac{1}{2.00\times 10^7}+\frac{(3640)^2-(4460)^2}{2(6.67\times 10^{-11})(5.97\times 10^{24})}$ $\frac{1}{r_a}=4.17\times 10^{-8}m^{-1}$ $\implies r_{a}=\frac{1}{4.17\times 10^{-8}}$ $r_{a}=2.40\times 10^7m=2.40\times 10^4Km$
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