Near-Earth Orbit
Suppose Earth had no atmosphere and a ball was fired from the top of Mt. Everest in a direction tangent to the ground. If the initial speed was high enough to cause the ball to travel in a circular trajectory around Earth, the magnitude of the ball’s acceleration would...
Suppose Earth had no atmosphere and a ball was fired from the top of Mt. Everest in a direction tangent to the ground. If the initial speed was high enough to cause the ball to travel in a circular trajectory around Earth, the magnitude of the ball’s acceleration would...
A) be zero
A) be zero
B) be much less than g (because the ball doesn’t fall to the ground).
B) be much less than g (because the ball doesn’t fall to the ground).
C) be approximately g.
C) be approximately g.
D) depend on the ball’s speed.
D) depend on the ball’s speed.