Kinematics of Uniform Circular Motion
 

Kinematics of Uniform Circular Motion problem 30


Many moons are in circular orbit about a planet. The angular velocity of a moon is when the orbit of the moon has a radius about the planet. The graph below shows the variation of with for these moons.




Show that the mass of the planet is given by the expression




where is the gravitational constant.


 

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