Chloe leads South’s varsity softball team in hitting. In a game against New Greer Academy this past weekend, Chloe slugged the 1-kg softball so hard that it cleared the outfield fence and landed on Lake Avenue. At one point in its trajectory, the ball was 19.2 m above the ground and moving with a speed of 31.6 m/s. Determine the total mechanical energy of the softball.

Determine the time it takes for a satellite to orbit the earth in a circular "near-earth" orbit. the definition of "near-earth" orbit is one which is at a height above the surface of the earth which is small compared to the radius of the earth, so that you may take the acceleration due to gravity as essentially the same as that on the surface. does your result depend on the mass of the satellite?