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Compare planets farther from the Sun to those nearer the Sun. (a) Do the farther planets have (greater or lesser) orbital velocity than the nearer ones?
greater or lesser?
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Answer:
Lesser
Explanation:
The gravitational pull between a planet orbiting the Sun and the Sun is equal to the centripetal force keeping the planet in circular motion:
where
is the gravitational constant
is the mass of the Sun
is the mass of the planet
is the distance between the Sun and the planet
v is the orbital velocity of the planet
We can re-arrange the formula to solve for v, the orbital velocity of the planet:
We see that the velocity is inversely proportional to the square root of the distance, r: therefore, the farther the planet from the Sun, the lesser the orbital velocity of the planet.
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