An artificial satellite of earth is launched in circular orbit in equatorial plane of the earth and satellites moving from west to east. With respect to a person on the equator, the satellite is completing one round trip in 24 hrs. Mass of earth isM=6×1024kg . For this situation orbital radius of satellite is

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An artificial satellite of earth is launched in circular orbit in equatorial plane of the earth and satellites moving from west to east. With respect to a person on the equator, the satellite is completing one round trip in 24 hrs. Mass of earth is $M = 6 \times 10^{24} kg$ . For this situation orbital radius of satellite is

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2 .66 \times 10^{4} km

6400 km

3600 km

29,600 km

answer is A.

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Here time period of satellite w.r.to observer on equator 24 hrs and satellite is moving from west to east, so west of satellite with respect to earth axis of rotation

$ω = \frac{2 π}{T_{S}} + \frac{2 π}{T_{E}}$