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The reason why satellites are put into orbits in a region above the Earth’s atmosphere is...

  1. The reason why satellites are put into orbits in a region above the Earth’s atmosphere is to get rid of the Earth’s gravity. TRUE OR FALSE
  1. A satellite is revolving around the Earth in a circular orbit at uniform speed. At any instant of time its velocity vector is perpendicular to the line joining the Earth’s center and the satellite.TRUE OR FALSE

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a) false.

the reason is, if the satellite revolve outside the earth atmosphere then we can make its path free of frictional losses. also for geosynchronous satellites, their height is fixed at 35.8 km from earth surface.

b) True

so that its gravitational force must balanced by centripetal force.

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