The working's all fine. You're given data to three significant figures so a good rule of thumb would be to give your answers to a similar precision.
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The working's all fine. You're given data to three significant figures so a good rule of thumb would be to give your answers to a similar precision.
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You can check the orbital period for Venus on the net, 224.70069 days. With rounding errors, does this look reasonable?
And the formulas look correct by me, although personally I would use different formulas, but that's purely by taste.
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And compare the orbital period with the rotation period and you'll be up for a surprise.
Runes for good luck:
[1 - exp(i*2π)]^-1
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Im only a day off so im guessing its ok, if i had got the formulae wrong it would probably be a fair bit off.
These are the formulas the teacher gave me so i probably have to use them ;)
ok thanks for all the help guys (your like a more accessible teacher with unlimited knowledge, or at least it seems that way) test in a few hours, wish me luck!
Edit: the orbital period is close to the rotation period ?
Last edited by LittleGrizzly; 05-20-2008 at 09:38.
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The rotation period is, in fact, longer.Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly
Runes for good luck:
[1 - exp(i*2π)]^-1
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Test went well, pretty much full marks apart from me saying the centripetal force acting on the earth is due to the gravity of the sun, i got the marks but he wasn't really happy with that answer. So thanks again!
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