How Do You Calculate Earth's Angular Velocity in Its Orbit?

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Homework Statement



The radius of the Earth's very nearly circular orbit around the sun is 1.5*10^11.
Find the magnitude of the Earth's angular velocity in rad/s.

Homework Equations





The Attempt at a Solution


For this problem, I have no clue how to go about solving this. help would be nice.
 
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Hi ch2kb0x,

ch2kb0x said:

Homework Statement



The radius of the Earth's very nearly circular orbit around the sun is 1.5*10^11.
Find the magnitude of the Earth's angular velocity in rad/s.

Homework Equations





The Attempt at a Solution


For this problem, I have no clue how to go about solving this. help would be nice.

The extra thing to use in this problem is that you know the period of the motion (the time to make one complete revolution). Do you see how to use that to find the velocity and angular velocity?