Your own "Orbit"

You are huge fanboy of physics experiment and love to play with gravity (No, not that movie). Your next mission is to orbit the a custom planet of specified density, and radius, manually, as efficient as possible.

What is the minimum height (in metre) you have to reach in order to have a stable orbit with a velocity 5 ms 1 5 \text {ms}^{-1} above the planet surface ?

Details and Assumptions

  • Radius of the planet ( R p R_p ) = 4km
  • Density of the planet is same as that of earth, ρ p = 5.5 g cm 3 \rho_p = 5.5 \text{g cm}^{-3}
  • The planet is assumed to be spherical in shape with uniform density
  • No atmosphere, drag, friction or any kind of resisting force


The answer is 2.

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