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What is the time taken by a planet to sweep an area of 2 million square km if the time taken by the same planet to cover an area of 1 million square km is 36 hours?(a) 18 hours(b) 36 hours(c) 72 hours(d) 144 hoursThe question was posed to me at a job interview.My question is based upon Gravitation topic in section Gravitation of Physics – Class 11

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Correct answer is (c) 72 HOURS

Easiest EXPLANATION: According to Kepler’s law of AREA, a line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out EQUAL areas during equal intervals of time.

If it takes 36 hours to sweep an area of 1 million square KM, it would take (36 + 36) hours to sweep an area of (1 + 1) million square km.

Therefore, the answer is 72 hours.



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