JEE Main 2014 — Gravitation Question with Solution
JEE Main 2014 (09 Apr Online)
Question
India's Mangalyan was sent to the Mars by launching it into a transfer orbit EOM around the sun. It leaves the earth at and meets Mars at . If the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit is , that of Mar's orbit , taking Kepler's laws, give the estimate of time for Mangalyan to reach Mars from Earth.
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From Kepler's law,
Required time .
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