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 414: 100

Answer

$r=8.3\times 10^{10}m$

Work Step by Step

We know that $T^2=\frac{4\pi^2}{GM_S}r^3$ This can be rearranged as: $r=\sqrt[3] {\frac{GM_ST^2}{4\pi^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $r=\sqrt[3] {\frac{(6.67\times 10^{-11})(2.00\times 10^{30})(1.3\times 10^7)^2}{4\pi^2}}$ $r=8.3\times 10^{10}m=0.55A.U$
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