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Homework Statement
You plan to take a trip to the moon. Since you do not have a traditional spaceship with rockets, you will need to leave the Earth with enough speed to make it to the moon. Some information that will help during this problem:
mearth = 5.9742 x 1024 kg
rearth = 6.3781 x 106 m
mmoon = 7.36 x 1022 kg
rmoon = 1.7374 x 106 m
dearth to moon = 3.844 x 108 m (center to center)
G = 6.67428 x 10-11 N-m2/kg2
Homework Equations
)On your first attempt you leave the surface of the Earth at v = 5534 m/s. How far from the center of the Earth will you get?
The Attempt at a Solution
I have tried taking -GMm/r+h and using the Earth and moon masses and setting then equal to each other and solving and I am just getting confused on the set up of the problem.