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A pair of stars rotates about their centre of mass One of the stars has a mass `M` and the other has mass m such that `M =2m` The distance between the centres of the stars is d (d being large compared to the size of either star) .
The ratio of kinetic energies of the two stars `(K_(m) //K_(M))` is .

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2

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4

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