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A space craft of mass 5.9×104 kg is in orbit around a planet of 5.1×1024 kg. If the planet can be assumed to be a uniform sphere of radius 5.4×106 m and the space ship is orbit a height of 6.9×105 m above the surface what is the gravitational potential energy of the ship? [G=6.674×10-11 Nm2kg-2]1 h( C+ V* f' N
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so far what I have done is used the equation for GPE
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where G is 6.674e-11 Nmkg-2
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/ u2 U9 H( G, z6 L2 `m is the mass of the space ship 5.9e4 kg
7 {: S9 J% U: g, v/ J+ b9 `. @! Ur is (i think) the radius of the planet (5.4e4 m) added to the height of the space ship is above the planet (6.9e5 m) and then divided it into G me m |
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