Estimate the altitude of the satellite

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An artificial satellite circling the Earth completes each orbit in 128 minutes. (The radius of the Earth is 6.38 106 m. The mass of the Earth is 5.98 1024 kg.)

(a) Find the altitude of the satellite.

(b) What is the value of g at the location of this satellite?

m/s2

Reference no: EM13516273

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