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In the figure shown below, a square of edge length 20.0 cm is formed by four spheres of masses m1=5.00 g, m2=3.00 g1, m3=1.00 g and m4=5.00 g. In unit vector notation, what is the net gravitational force from them on a central sphere with mass m5=2.00 g?

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In deep space, sphere A of mass 20 kg is located at the origin of an x-axis and sphere B of mass 10 kg is located on the axis at x=0.95 m. Sphere B is released from rest while sphere A is held at the origin.

a What is the gravitational potential energy of the two sphere system just as B is released?

b What is the kinetic energy of B when it has moved 0.15 m towards A?

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Consider an object of mass M that is small enough to be treated as a particle but large enough that a section of mass m is removed from it and placed at a distance 3.0 mm from the remaining part. To maximise the magnitude of the gravitational force between the removed section and the remaining part, what should the ratio of mM be?
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The Martian satellite Phobos travels in an approximately circular orbit of radius 9.4×106 m with a period of 7 h 39 min. Calculate the mass of Mars from this information.
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In 1610, Galileo used his telescope to discover four moons around Jupiter, with these mean orbital radii a and periods T:

 Name  a 108 m  T days
 Io  4.22  1.77
 Europa  6.71  3.55
 Ganymede  10.7  7.16
 Callisto 18.8  16.7

a Plot loga(y -axis) against logT(x-axis), and show that you get a straight line.
b Measure the slope of the line and compare it with the value that you expect from Kepler's third law.
c Find the mass of Jupiter from the intercept of this line with the y-axis.

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Three identical stars of mass M form an equilateral triangle that rotates around the triangle's centre as the stars move in a common circle about that centre. The triangle has edge length L. What is the speed of the stars?

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Three point particles are fixed in position in an xy-plane. Two of them, particle A of mass 6.00 g and particle B of mass 12.0 g, are shown in figure, with a separation of dAB=0.500 m at angle θ=30°. Particle C with mass 10.0 g is not shown. The net gravitational force acting on particle A due to particles B and C is 2.77×1014 N at an angle of -163.8° from the positive direction of the x-axis. What are a the x coordinate and b the y coordinate of particle C?

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A satellite moving in an elliptical orbit, is 1440 km above the Earth's surface at its farthest point and 180 km above at its closest point. Calculate a the semi-major axis and b the eccentricity of the orbit.
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Hunting a black hole. Observations of the light from a certain star indicate that it is part of a binary (two-star) system. This visible star has orbital speed v=270 km s-1, orbital period T=1.70 days and approximate mass m1=6Ms , where Ms is the Sun's mass, 1.99×1030 kg. Assume that the visible star and its companion star, which is dark and unseen, are both in circular orbits. What integer multiple of Ms gives the approximate mass m2 of the dark star?

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