Tham Yew Loon's answer to Shanice Lee's Junior College 2 H2 Maths question.
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Take note that Ep is the total GPE of the entire system, which includes the GPE between the non-zero masses of the moons. One common mistake would be to simply calculate the total GPE between the planet and the three moons, which would lead to the incorrect answer. Hope that this helps ;)
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7 years ago
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