一道天体物理的题,实在想不出来了,

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  • Oh,I see,It's identical to the earth's calculation but as far as I am concerned,question (b) and (a) should be exchanged both place,which means we should know the radius of Mercury first.

    There your answers go:

    we assume the mass of satellite is" m ";distance of that satellite above the surface of Mercury is " H" Its Angular velocity is "ω" ,cycle time is T.Mercury 's radius is "R"

    According to the Law of universal gravitation:

    GmM/(r+H)²=mω²(r+H)=m4π²/T²(r+H)(only reason is that we can hereby put the cycle time in ues)

    M =4π²(R+H)³/GT² ≈3.3*10 ^23 kg

    the volume of a spherical is 4πR³/3

    M=ρv=ρ*4πR³/3

    the density ρ=3M/4πR³≈5.430g/cm³=5430kg /m³

    the density of the earth is 5518kg/m³,which is a little larger than Mercury's.In addition,the radius of our planet is nearly three times bigger than that of Mercury.So,Mercury's size is about 27 times smaller than our planet.