The path of the earth around the sun is an ellipse with

Chapter 11, Problem 51

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The path of the earth around the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus. The ellipse has major axis 186,000,000 mi and eccentricity 0.017. Find the distance between the earth and the sun when the earth is (a) closest to the sun and (b) farthest from the sun

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