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then you would definitely get this question wrong if you were taking this course. because the question asks for a calculation. so the teacher is going to look for one. previous questions i thought were messed up and could not be answered the teacher actually did answer it and i lost marks, so...

no tiale11 a calculation is needed. the question ask to "calculate the acceleration of the satellite and it's direction" the question I'm asking is how to munipulate the centripetal formula

i don't think the answer is 4.5N/Kg. they woudn't give me the answer in the question and then ask me to calculate it, wouldn't make sense. and the mass of the satellite is not given, so F=ma is not applicable in this case.

A satellite is designed to orbit Earth at an altitude above it's surface that will place it in a gravitational field with a strength of 4.5N/kg b)assuming the orbit is circular, calculate the acceleration of the satlellite and it's direction. since the satellite is rotating around the...

thank you very much for your service. i wasnt confident in my answers because the distance seem rediculous from answer that i saw in the examples of my course book. but once again thank you for your expertise.

and another thing. did you try the calculations yourself? and if yes. what was your answer?

I wasn't getting straight answers from you. so i was just throwing up answer i did quickly hopping you would say, if it's correct or not. you tell everything else but one important thing: the answer. and you still didn't tell me if it's 9000km

off by a factor of 10? does that mean the answer is 900km? and if it is, how did i make such an error (asking myself). but anyway based on the calculations the answer comes out to be 9000km unless i missed something again. do you see what i did wrong in my math?

so r=9.0*10^6 - 6.38*10^6m ? because that answer got me 2.6*10^6 which is still too much i see that you said that r is the distance from the earth. but it still doesn't tell me how I'm calculating it incorrectly

okay. show me were i went wrong with the calculation please

can you give me some hints on how to rearange the formula please? thanks or am i suppose to subtract the answer from the radius of the earth? thanks again

i still think the answer is wrong, over 9000 Km from the Earth's surface?

10^13?

it's in the formula universal gravitational formula