Thanks to everyone for their responses - especially the "Coupon Collector's Problem" which really does get to grips with the algebra involved. I'm going to look out that book and start reading!
I've taken a slightly different route in the six months since I last posted here, and modeled the...
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Hi all,
I'm posing this question because I'm interested in the answer from a
purely theoretical point of view - I'm not going to go out and test
the answer afterwards, and it's not for my homework (I last did
homework more than 10 years ago)...
Hi there,
For a full explanation of how to calculate the height of a geostationary satellite, check out a blog post I wrote on this very subject:
http://davechessgames.blogspot.com/2011/01/maths-problems-5-geostationary.html
This uses the formulae and the constants you've been given -...