The Total solution for NCERT class 6-12
Io, one of the satellites of Jupiter, has anorbital period of 1.769 days and the radius of the orbit is 4.22 × 108 m. Show that themass of Jupiter is about one-thousandth that of the sun.
Orbital period of
Mass of the latter isgiven by the relation:
Wre,
= Mass of Jupiter
G = Universalgravitational constant
Orbital radius of theEarth,
Hence,it can be inferred that the mass of Jupiter is about one-thousandth that of theSun.