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📅 NSB Round Robin 2009🎓 HS🔄 Round 12#️⃣ Question 22❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

If a satellite moving in a circular orbit is raised to another circular orbit 3-times as far from the Earth's center and where the kinetic energy of the satellite is 3-times less, by what factor does the centripetal force on the satellite decrease?

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