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Gravitaional potential energy
Question

An object is shot vertically upwards from the surface of earth with a speed nve where ve is the escape speed and n< 1. If R is the radius of earth, maximum distance of the object from the center of earth will be :

Moderate
Solution

12mnve2GMmR=0GMmR+hmaxhmax=R1n2

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