College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 2 - Problems - Page 67: 57

Answer

$1.1\times10^{-9}N$

Work Step by Step

The approximate magnitude of the gravitational force between earth and the spacecraft = $F=G\frac{m_{1}m_{2}}{r^{2}}=(6.674\times10^{-11})\times\frac{825\times 5.974\times 10^{24}}{(17\times10^{12})^{2}}=1.1\times10^{-9}N$
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