JEE Main 2024 — Gravitation Question with Solution
From: JEE Main 2024 (Online) 9th April Morning Shift
Question
An astronaut takes a ball of mass from earth to space. He throws the ball into a circular orbit about earth at an altitude of . From earth's surface to the orbit, the change in total mechanical energy of the ball is . The value of is (take :
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Step-by-step explanation
At earth surface,
in the orbit,
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