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Given information
- The mass of the earth's surface is .
- Find the measure the force of gravity on a spacecraft that is Earth radii above the Earth's surface.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
- Gravity acting on a satellite is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the satellite and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the satellites.
- The force of gravity on a spacecraft equals its weight , where is the object's mass and is the acceleration due to gravity.
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