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Question on velocity of an object orbiting a planet.

Asked by quilm (72points) July 4th, 2010

http://yfrog.com/mdorbitingj
In the image above it shows a ball being shot around the earth it drops 1m from the orange box to floor level and drops an extra 10m due to the curvature of the earth.

So as Vf^2=Vi^2+delta D but is distance 1m or 11m?

Vf: final velocity
Vi: initial velocity what is 0

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