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  2. When a body coming from infinity falls on the earth's surface, give it...

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  4. A comet orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit. Does the comet ha...

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  5. The time period of revolution of an artificial satellite in an orbit...

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  6. An artificial satellite appears to be stationary with respect to an ob...

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  7. What is the name of the orbit where an artificial satellite appears t...

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  8. What time will a polar satellite take to revolve around the earth once...

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  9. In which plane of the earth, does the orbit of a geostationary satell...

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  10. Write down one most important application of geostationary satellite.

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  11. Assuming that the earth revolves around the sun in a circular orbit, ...

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  12. If the distance between the sun and the earth were half the present va...

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  13. If two satellite revolve in two different circular orbits, the orbital...

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  14. The orbital speed of a satellite of the earth does not depend on the m...

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  15. Two satellite A and B are revolving around the earth at the same heigh...

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  16. If the orbital speed of an artificial satellite revolving very close ...

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  17. A geostationary satellite orbits the earth once in 24 h in the …….of t...

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  18. If the radius of the earth is R, what will be the distance of a geosta...

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  19. A person inside an artificial satellite revolving around the earth fee...

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  20. The orbit of a polar satellite lies in the …….plane.

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