A newly discovered planet has four times the mass of the Earth, but a person's weight on the new planet's surface is the same as the person's weight on the Earth's surface. The radius of the new planet in terms of the radius R of Earth is

A newly discovered planet has four times the mass of the Earth, but a person's weight on the new planet's surface is the same as the person's weight on the Earth's surface. The radius of the new planet in terms of the radius R of Earth is

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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A newly discovered planet has four times the
mass of the Earth, but a person's weight on
the new planet's surface is the same as the
person's weight on the Earth's surface.
The radius of the new planet in terms of the
radius R of Earth is

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