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orbital radius

To find the orbital radius, in meters, of a satellite circling the Earth, use the formula:

$r = \sqrt[3]{\frac{G M P^{2}}{4 π^{2}}}$ , where $G$ is the universal gravitational constant, $M$ is the Earth’s mass, and $P$ is the satellite’s period.

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$[\begin{array}{c} x^{2} & \frac{1}{2} \\ \sqrt{π} & \int x d x \end{array}]$