Earth & Moon Escape Velocity

ohmymaths

May 4, 20211 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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