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OS-AP-6-12 · OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e

Centripetal Acceleration (Problem 12)

Taking the age of Earth to be about years and assuming its orbital radius of m has not changed and is circular, calculate the approximate total distance Earth has traveled since its birth (in a frame of reference stationary with respect to the Sun).