Comets travel around the sun in elliptical orbits with large eccentricities. If a comet has speed...

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Comets travel around the sun in elliptical orbits with largeeccentricities. If a comet has speed 2.5×104 m/s when ata distance of 2.8×1011 m from the center of the sun,what is its speed when at a distance of 5.3×1010 m.

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Apply conservation of energy to solve this problem Means Potential Energy PE Kinetic energy KE at one distance PE KE at the second distance the PE    See Answer
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