To test the relationship between the orbital period of a satellite and the radius of…

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Problem

To test the relationship between the orbital period TT of a satellite and the radius RR 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) TT versus RR (b) T2T^{2} versus RR (c) T2T^{2} versus R3R^{3} (d) T2T^{2} versus R2R^{2}

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