if suddenly the gravitational force of attraction between the earth and satellite revolving around the earth becomes zero what will happen to the satellite

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The satellite will fly off into space in a direction which was tangential to its original direction of motion. This is because the direction of velocity of an object moving in a circular path is always tangential at every point along the path.

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