Homework Help: physics

Posted by paige on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 10:45pm.

You are explaining to a friend why the crew of the International Space Station feels weightless
while orbiting the Earth. Your friend responds that he thought gravity was just a lot weaker up
there. Show that it isn’t so by calculating the acceleration due to gravity 350 km above the
Earth’s surface in terms of g

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