Earth & Moon Escape Velocity
- ohmymaths
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min read
Question:
Calculate the escape velocity of an object from both the surface of the earth and moon?

Answer:
We know the following information:

We use earth's radius as r, as the rocket is taking off from the earths surface.
We can now use the standard formula for calculating escape velocity:

For the moon we simply replace M and r.

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