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Grade 11Mechanics

Earth is revolving around the Sun if the distance of the earth from the sun is reduced to one fourth of the present distance and present in and reduced by

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Arun
8 Years ago
Dear Hartvik
 
According to Kepler's third law, the square of orbital period, T, of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance, R, from the sun.

T2 ∝ R3

T ∝ √R3
T1/T2 = √R13 / √R23
         = √R13 / (√(R1/4)3 
         = √(43)
         = 8

T2 = T1/8

 T2 = 45 days approx
 
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Arun(askIITians forum expert)
Profile image of Rohit
8 Years ago
this should be done by differentiating seperately i mean partial differention the other way is that to sub no other way than this the best way is partial differentiation