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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 6th Edition
5
Circular Motion; Gravitation
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5-1 to 5-3: Uniform Circular Motion; Highway Curves
5-4: Nonuniform Circular Motion
5-6 and 5-7: Law of Universal Gravitation
5-8: Satellites; Weightlessness
5-9: Kepler's Laws

Problem 5
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ac=0.9g’sa_c=0.9 \textrm{g's}
Giancoli 6th Edition, Chapter 5, Problem 5 solution video poster
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By Mr. Dychko on Sat, 11/6/2010 - 1:42 AM

The video has been updated.

By Mr. Dychko on Thu, 11/4/2010 - 6:54 PM

Thank you! It looks like they got me by giving the distance from the "surface of the Earth" whereas my solution wrongly assumes the distance of 400km is from the center of the Earth. I'll have to redo this video and solution, and thank you for noticing this!

By sroman on Thu, 11/4/2010 - 6:34 PM

the answer in the book is suppose to be .9g's (sixth edition)

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