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6.2 Exercise 4

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Taking the age of Earth to be about 4×1094 \times \text{10}^{9} years and assuming its orbital radius of 1.5 × 10 11 1.5 × \text{10}^{11} m has not changed and is circular, calculate the approximate total distance Earth has traveled since its birth (in a frame of reference stationary with respect to the Sun).

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 6.2 Centripetal Acceleration, exercise 4

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