A 100-kg spacecraft is in a circular orbit about Earth at

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A 100-kg spacecraft is in a circular orbit about Earth at a height (a) What is the orbital period of the spacecraft? (b) What is the spacecrafts kinetic energy? (c) Express the angular momentum L of the spacecraft about the center of Earth in terms of the kinetic energy K and find the numerical value of L.

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QUESTION:

A 100-kg spacecraft is in a circular orbit about Earth at a height (a) What is the orbital period of the spacecraft? (b) What is the spacecrafts kinetic energy? (c) Express the angular momentum L of the spacecraft about the center of Earth in terms of the kinetic energy K and find the numerical value of L.

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Given,

Radius of orbit,

Radius of earth,  

Mass of object,

Mass of earth,

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