Homework Statement
A vessel of internal volume 9 m^3 is lowered with its mouth downward into fresh water lake until the volume of the air in the vessel becomes 5 m^3. Given that the atmosphere pressure is 760 mmHg, what is the verrtical distance of the water level inside the vessel from the...
Coukd I ask one more question : how about the period of 3 identical planets moving around another planet and they are positioned one third of a revolution apart from each other? Do we have consider the force between the three planets or just simply the force between them and the planet in the...
I still don't knowhow to apply Kepler's Law to this problem. I can mathematically prove the Kepler's Law in case of satellite moving around Earth but with 2 planet in circular orbit I have no idea. Can you please explain a bit further and use the equation so that it would be easier for me to...
Homework Statement
Two stars of masses M and m, separated by a distance d, revolve in circular orbits around their center of mass.Show that each star has a period given by
T^2= (4π^2)(d^3)/ G(M+m)
Homework Equations
[/B]The Attempt at a Solution
I[/B] know the Kepler's Laws can be...