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All right, so question one, if the radius and the mass of a planet were double, what would happen to the magnitude of the gravitational field strength? so let's call the original strength g.
00:10
This should be gm over r squared.
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So the new field strength is going to be g times m prime over r prime squared.
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And m prime is the new mass.
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So this is twice the original mass, divided by twice the original radius squared.
00:25
So this is, in fact, going to be half the original values.
00:29
So that would be choice a for question two we have if the mass is somewhere to become half its current value with the earth maintaining the same orbit the time interval for earth's orbit is going to remain the same sorry i misread that i thought it said the mass of earth so if the time interval uh if the sun's mass decreases by a factor two the uh rotational period is going to decrease by a factor of two or square root of two, i mean, because the speed or the, sorry, it would increase by a factor of the square root of two.
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So that's choice c...