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Satellite Energy & Weightlessness question from NEET 2005 (AIPMT)

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Satellite Energy & Weightlessness

For a satellite moving in an orbit around the earth, the ratio of kinetic energy to potential energy is

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Answer: (a)

$K = \frac{GMm}{2r}$ , $U = -\frac{GMm}{r}$ .
$\frac{K}{|U|} = \frac{1}{2}$ .
So the answer is (a) 1/2.

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