Q: Taking the radius of the earth to be 6400 km, by what percentage will the acceleration due to gravity at a height of 100 km from the surface of the earth differ from that on the surface of the earth
(a) about 1.5 %
(b) about 5 %
(c) about 8 %
(d) about 3 %
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Ans: (d)