Calculate the centripetal acceleration needed to keep the Moon in its orbit (assuming a circular orbit about a fixed Earth), and compare it with the value of the acceleration due to Earth’s gravity that you have just found.

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Q: Calculate the centripetal acceleration of a point 7.50 cm from the axis of an ultracentrifuge…

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Q: What is acceleration due to gravity at the equator and at the poles of the earth?

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Q: Can a satellite maintain an orbit in the plane of the Artic Circle? Why or why not?

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Q: An artificial satellite circles Earth in a circular orbit at a location where the acceleration due…

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Q: An artificial satellite circles the Earth in a circular orbit at a location where the acceleration…

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Centripetal Force

A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.