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The world should revolve around me

by Alicia
(Sydney, Australia)

The World Should Revolve Around Me

The World Should Revolve Around Me

im doing a maths investigation at the moment and im looking at how the speed of one complete rotation around the sun differs for each planet. i was wondering if you would be abe to give me the formula in which you need figure this out?

Barry's Response - Alicia:

It depends on what you already know about them. If you have the planet's year length, in days for instance, and the average distance from the sun, in km. It would go something like this.

speed = (approximately) pi (3.1415926) x distance x 2 divided by the number of days.

This will give a pretty good estimate in km per day. Divide by 24 for km per hour or 86400 to get km per second.

I becomes more complicated if you consider the fact that these orbits are not perfect circles. But you probably don't need to for this exercise.



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