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An astronaut whose height is 1.50 m floats "feet down" in an orbiting space shuttle at a distance r=6.673×106 m away from the centre of Earth. The magnitude of difference between the gravitational acceleration at her feet and at her head is found to be N×10-6 m s-2. What is the value of N?   
[ME=6×1024 kg and G=6.67×10-11 N m2 kg-2]
PhysicsGravitationJEE Main
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The correct answer is: 1.8
The gravitational acceleration at any distance r from the center of Earth is ag=GMEr2.
On differentiating, we get  dag=-2GMEr3dr, where dag is infinitesimal change in a due to differential change dr in r.

dag=26.67×10-116×10246.673×1063×1.50

=1.8×10-6 m s-2

 N=1.8

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