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    Distance of a satellite from the earths surface.

    1. A television satellite is in circular orbit about the Earth, with a sidereal period of exactly 24h. What is the distance from the Earths surface? 2. I think I have to use Kepler's Laws. Confused as to how to do it without the mass of each. I guess I could find out the mass of the...
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    Calculating errors (propagation)

    Completely new to the concept of errors and don't know how to approach this... Calculate value and error in Z Z= 2AB^2/C Where A= 100 Error in A= +/- 0.1 B= 0.1 Error in B= +/- 0.005 C= 50 Error in C= +/- 2 Plugging in the numbers Z= 0.04 How do you carry the errors...
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