Consider a satellite going round the earth in an orbit. Which of the following statements is wrong

It is a freely falling body

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It suffers no acceleration

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It is moving with a constant speed

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Its angular momentum remains constant

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Solution

The correct option is B
It suffers no acceleration

Centripetal acceleration works on it.

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