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BAAO — 2018 Astronomy & Astrophysics Challenge
Question 1
For a satellite in a circular orbit around the Earth, which of the arrows in the figure below describe the direction of the velocity and the resultant force?
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Source: British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO), Astronomy & Astrophysics Challenge 2018. Question text, answer-choice text, and answer were transcribed from the official BAAO paper and solutions PDFs; the explanation and metadata are original.