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ISBN: 9781118230725

Author: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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Chapter 13, Problem 74P

The mysterious visitor that appears in the enchanting story The Little Prince was said to come from a planet that “was scarcely any larger than a house!” Assume that the mass per unit volume of the planet is about that of Earth and that the planet does not appreciably spin. Approximate (a) the free-fall acceleration on the planet's surface and (b) the escape speed from the planet.

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