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a) relationship between FORCE and ACCELERATION for the moon in circular motion.
b) relationship between MASS and ACCELERATION for rocket lifting off to space.
c) relationship between The PERIOD of orbit of a satellite and its ALTITUDE
 
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a) force to acceleration would just have a gradient of the moon's mass
b) not too sure exactly what this would be. I suppose you would just have increasing acceleration against decreasing mass.
c) r3 is proportional to T2 (Kepler's third law) where r = distance from centre of the central body (Earth I assume?) and T = period. Altitude = r - radius of central body.
 

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yeah for no.2

as the thrust(hahahaha) stays constant

and we all know that trust is a force

and Force=(mass)(acceleration)

so as the fuel is used up (~90% of a rockets mass before lift off is fuel) the acceleration increases so as to maintain a constant force
 

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lolokay said:
a) force to acceleration would just have a gradient of the moon's mass
b) not too sure exactly what this would be. I suppose you would just have increasing acceleration against decreasing mass.
c) r3 is proportional to T2 (Kepler's third law) where r = distance from centre of the central body (Earth I assume?) and T = period. Altitude = r - radius of central body.
I just used all the formulae for each respectively and found the relationships between one another.
Is that enough though?
 

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