Tom and Jerry Space Travel: Calculating Speed & Weight

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Tom and Jerry decide to go space travel. They are in a spaceship traveling in a circular orbit completing one revolution in 12 hrs (43200seconds)

a. Calculate speed of the spaceship relative to the centre of the Earth
b. Calculate Tom's weight while he is in orbit around the Earth.
 

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Okay... you should probably show some work... do you know the relation between angular velocity and tangential velocity?
 
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