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Question: The mysterious visitor that appears in the enchanting story The Little Prince was said to come from a planet that 鈥渨as scarcely any larger than a house!鈥 Assume that the mass per unit volume of the planet is about that of Earth and that the planet does not appreciably spin. Approximate (a) the free-fall acceleration on the planet鈥檚 surface and (b) the escape speed from the planet.

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Answer:

  1. The free fall acceleration on the planet鈥檚 surface is ag=210-5m/s2
  2. The escape speed from the planet is v=0.0175m/s

Step by step solution

01

Identification of given data

The mass of the earth isME=6.01024kg

The radius of the earth isRE=6.4106m

02

Significance of free fall

When an object falls through a vacuum, it is solely subject to one external force: gravitational force, which is the object's weight. Free falling is the term for an item that is solely moving due to the force of gravity, and Newton's second rule of motion describes this motion. We can use the concept of free fall acceleration and the escape speed from the planet.

Formula

=M43r3ag=Gmr2v=2Gmr

Where,

is density of the planet

G is the gravitational constant ( 6.6710-11m3/kgs2)

agis the gravitational acceleration

m is the mass of object

v is the escape speed

03

(a) Determining the free fall acceleration

Consider radius of the planet

r = 10

The density of the planet is equal to earth. Hence, we can find the mass of the planet as

m43r3=ME43RE3m=ME43RE343r3m=MERE3r3=61024kg6.4106m310m3=2.3107kg

The free fall acceleration on the planet鈥檚 surface:

The expression for the acceleration due to gravity on the planet鈥檚 surface is

ag=Gmr2=6.6710-11Nm2kg22.3107kg10m2=1.510-5m/s2

The free fall acceleration on the planet鈥檚 surface is ag=210-5m/s2

04

(b) Determining the escape speed from planet

The expression for the escape speed from the planet is

v=2Gmr=26.6710-11Nm2kg22.3107kg10m=0.0175m/s

The escape speed from the planet is0.0175m/s

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