The radius in kilometre to which the radius of earth to be compressed so that the escape velocity is increased 10 times is ______ .
Answer: 64
Solution
The escape speed from a body of mass and radius is , so at fixed mass . Raising by a factor of therefore needs the radius reduced by a factor of :
The earth would have to be compressed to a radius of km.
The earth would have to be compressed to a radius of km.
JEE Main · 2021 · 17 Mar 2021 · Shift 1 · Numerical answer