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Homework Statement
What is the tension of this rope?
Cosmonaut m=100kg is outside of spaceship M=5 tons on rope with length 64m. Cosmonaut along with his spaceship moves in orbit at a neglible distance.
m=100kg
M=5000kg
L=64m
Planet's mass 6*10^24
Planet's radius 6400km
Homework Equations
Kepler's 3rd law(maybe?)
The Attempt at a Solution
It's from physics olympics, so i bet that it requires one complex idea.
What comes out of universal gravitation law is 8.14208984375×10^-9 N and I'm not sure what to do afterwards.