A hot air balloon rising vertically is tracked by an observer located 2 miles from the lift-off point. At a certain moment, the angle between the observer's line-of-sight and the horizontal is , and it is changing at a rate of 0.1 rad/min. How fast is the balloon rising at this moment

Asatellite with an orbital period of exactly 24.0 h is always positioned over the same spot on earth. this is known as a geosynchronous orbit. television,communication, and weather satellites use geosynchronous orbits. at what distance would a satellite have to orbit earth in order to have a geosynchronous orbit?