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34.1 Exercise 20

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Assuming a circular orbit for the Sun about the center of the Milky Way galaxy, calculate its orbital speed using the following information: The mass of the galaxy is equivalent to a single mass 1.5×10111 . 5 \times \text{10}^{\text{11}} times that of the Sun (or 3×1041kg3 \times \text{10}^{\text{41}} \text{kg}), located 30,000 ly away.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 34.1 Cosmology and Particle Physics, exercise 20

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