Consider a comet in a long, thin elliptical orbit with a semimajor axis of one astronomical unit. What can you say about the sidereal period of this comet?

initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft

friction

explanation:

they us to move forward and backwards