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Condition for circular orbit
I am a little confused about the condition for circular orbit. Goldstein's Classical Mechanics has the condition for circular orbit as $$f^'=0\tag1$$ where $f^'$ is the effective force. I understand ...
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Increasing mass' effect on the balance between centripetal force and centrifugal force
Okay, this is nothing more than a thought experiment which popped into my head while driving home from work today.
Take the case of a single body orbiting another, larger body, as in a planet and a ...
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Why don't astronauts in orbit get stuck to the “ceiling”?
When a shuttle is in orbit, it is essentially rotating around the "centre" of the Earth at a great speed. So why does there seem to be no centrifugal force sticking them to the 'ceiling' of the ...
