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A planet of mass (of mars) is revolving round the sun (of mass ) in an elliptic orbit. If is the velocity of the planet when its position vector from the sun is , then if the planet rotates in the counter-clockwise direction, the areal velocity has direction

Answer: (A),(C)

Solution

Areal velocity , which points in the same direction as the angular momentum . For counter-clockwise motion (as viewed from

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