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An astronaut whose height is floats "feet down" in an orbiting space shuttle at a distance 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 . What is the value of ?
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The gravitational acceleration at any distance from the center of Earth is .
On differentiating, we get , where is infinitesimal change in a due to differential change in .
On differentiating, we get , where is infinitesimal change in a due to differential change in .
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