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Grade 11General Physics

Let A be the area swept out by the line joining the earth and the sun during FEB1997.the area swept out by the line during a typical week in Feb 1997 is

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
From Kepler’s second law,
equal radius area sweeped would be equal to  radius area sweeped in equal interval of time.
Thus, there were 4 weeks in the month of FEB 1997.
the area swept out by the line during a typical week in Feb 1997 be =>
(let) = As at time T.
then for four weeks time would be 4T and area swapped would be = 4As.
Thus,
4As = A
As = A/4.