Why doesn't a satellite is like a free falling body?
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because it made up of metal and having high resistance to oppse against gravity
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The short answer is, to orbit the planet and not come crashing down, a spacecraft has to travel forward (tangential to Earth) fast enough that it compensates for the fall downwards.
Newton used the idea of a cannon to illustrate this. Fired at a slow speed the cannon ball quickly fell to Earth. Fired at a faster speed it went farther. Each path could be drawn as a curve.
Newton used the idea of a cannon to illustrate this. Fired at a slow speed the cannon ball quickly fell to Earth. Fired at a faster speed it went farther. Each path could be drawn as a curve.
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