Physics

Problem

To test the relationship between the orbital period

T

of a satellite and the radius

R

of its nearly circular orbit around Earth, a student plans to graph measured data so that the resulting plot is a straight line passing through the origin. Which of the following pairs of quantities should the student plot on the vertical and horizontal axes, respectively, to achieve this goal? a)

T

versus

R

T^{2}

versus

R

T^{2}

versus

R^{3}

T^{2}

versus

R^{2}

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