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Monsterboy
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In high school whenever i asked questions about planets and their orbits around their star or the orbits of satellites around their planets ,i always got the answers with the terms centrifugal ,centripetal force and an example of a stone tied to a thread and how it behaves when you hold the thread at the other end and by swinging it, you make the stone orbit your fist but this circular not elliptical but all things that i mentioned about move in elliptical orbits ,even electrons revolve around the nucleus in elliptical orbits right ? i never got the answer for my "elliptical question" .can i get an answer please? maybe my teachers thought that it was too complicated for me to understand because i didn't know about relativity or something?