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Solving differential Equation for the Two-Body Problem
So, I'm following the derivation in D. Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics, of the equations for a two-body system. I understand all of it, aside from this one step.
When he's talking about ...
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Do Lagrangian points actually maintain a fixed distance?
I was reading on up Lagrangian points and the restricted three-body problem.
From what I was able to tell, the Lagrangian points are 5 points in a two-body system such that a third body would be ...
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Cyclic co-ordinates implying the constant velocity motion of center of mass of a system of particles
I'm reading the section on Central Force in my textbook (Goldstein's Classical Mechanics has a similar argument in the chapter titled "The Central Force Problem", first section), where we have the ...
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Orbit through L4 and L5
I was reading the Wikipedia article on Lagrangian points and doing the requisite wiki walk through the various quasi-satellites of Earth when a question occurred to me:
Could there be a stable or ...
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Is there a conserved quantity that enforces planar orbits in central force motion?
From what I remember, one of the first steps in finding the equations of motion for an orbiting body is to argue that the body's motion has to be restricted to a plane, because the central force has ...
