GATE AE · 2019 · AE
Question 42: Central force motion
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Question 42
AENAT2 marksNeeds review
The product of earth’s mass (
) and the universal gravitational constant (
) is
m
/s
. The radius of the earth is 6371 km. The minimum increment in the velocity to be imparted to a spacecraft flying in a circular orbit around the earth at an altitude of 400 km to make it exit earth’s gravitational field is ______ km/s (round off to 2 decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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GATE AE 2019 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Aerospace Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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