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** Please answer the question without using Calculus. This is an algebra based Physics course. Thank you! **
a) Over 2 millenniums ago, intellectuals in the ancient world concluded the earth's radius. This determined value is about RE = 6400 km.
More than 70 years after Isaac Newton formulated his law of universal gravity, Cavendish made a direct measurement of the gravitational constant. This value is about G = 6.7 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2.
Show how to calculate the mass of planet earth, ME.
b) Ancient scholars also figured out that the earth orbits the sun in a nearly circular orbit with a radius equal to 23,000RE.
Show how to calculate the mass of the sun, MS.
Please show all steps if possible. Thank you!