GATE AE · 2020 · AE
Question 43: Central force motion
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Question 43
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The ratio of tangential velocities of a planet at the perihelion and the aphelion from the sun is 1.039. Assuming that the planet’s orbit around the sun is planar and elliptic, the value of eccentricity of the orbit is ______ (round off to three decimal places).
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GATE AE 2020 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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