The velocity an object must travel to successfully exit the gravitational influence of a body.
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When did Voyager-1 achieve Solar System escape velocity?
Wikipedia's page on escape velocity puts the escape velocity for an object travelling out of the Solar System at ~525km/s. This figure is slightly higher than the tentative velocity of Voyager-1 at ~17km/s.
Why is the vehicle spoken of as being on…
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Escape velocity given at an angle
We know that the escape velocity of Earth is about 11.2Km/s but what if we give that same velocity to an object at any angle let's just take 30° will it still escape from Earth's gravitational field or not
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Zero gravity area
How can I find the radius of the circle (average) centered at the center of the earth where the gravitational force of the earth cancels the gravitational force of the other celestial bodies?
Will the velocity which is required to reach the…
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Escape velocity and Conservation of energy
If a physical body leaves earth with 11.2 km/s escape velocity with a certain amount of Mechanical energy, then how can it be said that the body will have 0 Mechanical energy at a point at infinity without following the Conservation of energy?
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doppler shift and escape velocity
Consider a radiation emitted by star at rest and reach then earth and the earth moves away .If we assume that the photon has a particle character . Since the star is at rest and and earth is revolving and relative to source. And the doppler shift…
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At what temperature will the hydrogen molecules escape from earth's surface?
At what temperature will the hydrogen molecules escape from the earth's surface?
