Saturday 20 October 2012

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http://forums.udacity.com/ph100/questions/9173/
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**Q4. Say a white dwarf has a mass of the sun but the radius of earth.
 What is the surface gravity of it? How much will you weigh on it??**

so:
  
mass = 1.98x10^30 kg
radius = 6.4x10^6
gravitational constant = 6.67x10^-11 Nm/kg^2
a = (G x m)/r^2
= (6.67x10^-11 x 1.98x10^30) / 6.4x10^6^2
= 3224267.5 m/s^2
we will wheigh:

m=40kg
a = 3.22x10^6 m/s^2
             
f=ma
=40 x 3.22x10^6
=1.28x10^8 N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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