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A-LevelPhysicsGravitational fieldsFeb/Mar 2020Paper 4 Q110 Marks

Answer all the questions in the spaces provided. (a) Define gravitational potential at a point. (b) TESS is a satellite of mass 360kg in a circular orbit about the Earth as shown in Fig. 1.1. [Figure 1.1] The radius of the Earth is 6.4 × 10⁶m and the mass of the Earth, considered to be a point mass at its centre, is 6.0 × 10²⁴ kg.

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Physics (9702) Feb/Mar 2020 examination, Paper 4 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Gravitational fields and is worth 10 marks.

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