The Speed Needed to Escape the Pull of Earth's Gravity

question 51

Multiple Choice

The speed needed to escape the pull of Earth's gravity is 11.3 km/s. What is this speed in mi/h?

• A) 65,500 mi/h
• B) 25,300 mi/h
• C) 18,200 mi/h
• D) 1,090 mi/h
• E) 5.02 * 10^-3 mi/h

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Definitions:

Thymine

A pyrimidine nucleobase found in DNA, pairing with adenine, crucial for DNA stability and integrity.

Nucleic Acids

Biopolymers essential to all known forms of life, which carry genetic information in cells and are made up of sequences of nucleotides.

Adenine

One of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T.

Nucleic Acids

Large biomolecules essential to all known forms of life, including DNA and RNA, which store and transmit genetic information.