ESCAPE VELOCITY EXAMPLE 2

A neutron star is a dead star with about twice the mass of the Sun, but a radius of only 10 kilometers. How fast would you have to be going to escape the surface of a neutron star? The escape velocity of Earth is 11.2 kilometers / second.

STEP 1

The first step is always to write out the data. Look up the data for the mass and radius of the Earth, and the mass of the Sun, and write these numbers down. When you finish that, click here to move on to Step 2.

Updated 8/27/99

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