A 390.45 kg satellite is geosynchronous orbit around the Earth stays over the same spot and takes 24 hours to make one revolution. Given the following data, determine the satellite
Your method is correct. Of course, the small m's cancel out. I
believe that I get the correct answer using your method.
w^2*(r+h)=G*Me/(r+h)^2
where
w: orbital velocity in radians per second
r: earth radius
Me: mass of Earth (from google)
G: gravitational constant (from google)
substitute w = 2*pi/T, where T is the rotation time of the Earth
(for more precision, you should use the sidereal day, which is 23
hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds ).
We can now solve for h to get the following.
h = (1/2pi)*2^(1/3)*(G*Me*T^2*pi)^(1/3)-r
put the value and find h
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