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Homework Statement
a. A particle in circular orbit is experiencing an attractive force F towards its center of the orbit. It its period T scales as rn, where r is the radius of the orbit, how does the force scale with radius r? That is, find p in the relation F = arp, where a is an arbitrary constant.
b. Find n and p corresponding to the circulation motion under gravitational force and verify keplers third law.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I solved part a. for P and I guess that's apparently not what the question it asking for according to my professor who created this problem. I know how to verify Keplers third law for b., don't really know what n and p are supposed to represent or anything. scaling factors? the exponent for r?