Calculate the altitude of a satellite in geostationary orbit which is an orbit with the same 24 hour period as the Earth and always located directly over the same location on the equator. Geostationary orbit is a special case of geosynchronous orbit. A geosynchronous orbit simply has the same 24 hour period as the Earth, however, it is inclined relative to the equator and traces out an ellipse in the sky as seen from the Earth. (Sorry they are incorrectly identified as the same in the video.) Thank you to Dan Burns @kilroi22 and Christopher Becke @BeckePhysics for the correction!br Want Lecture Notes? This is an AP Physics 1 topic.br br Content Times:br 0:11 What is geosynchronous orbit?br 0:47 Drawing the free body diagram and starting to solve the problembr 3:02 Solving for the satellite’s angular velocitybr 4:05 Identifying the masses and radiibr 5:25 Defining “r” and solving for altitudebr 6:29 The physics works!br br Next Video: Dropping a Bucket of Water - Demonstrationbr br Multilingual? Please help translate Flipping Physics videos!br br Previous Video: Deriving the Acceleration due to Gravity on any Planet and specifically Mt. Everestbr br Please support me on Patreon!br br Thank you to Christopher Becke and Aarti Sangwan for being my Quality Control Team for this video.br br Thank you to Youssef Nasr for transcribing the English subtitles of this video.