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Homework Statement
A distant star has a single planet circling it in
a circular orbit of radius 3.33 × 1011 m. The
period of the planet’s motion about the star
is 836 days.
What is the mass of the star? The
value of the universal gravitational constant
is 6.67259 × 10−11 N · m2/kg2.
Answer in units of kg.
Homework Equations
v = 2 π r / T
ac = v2 / r
Fc = mac
Kepler's laws?
The Attempt at a Solution
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