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All right. I apologize for being vague in my first post. I have done more reading, and I am now familiar with the required equations, but I am still a little confused on how I should approach the situation. In the restricted problem of three bodies the potential is given by...

Hello, I am currently trying to figure out how I can use Microsoft Excel to calculate the ballistic trajectory of a test particle released from the inner Lagrange point in a semidetached binary. To keep things simple, I am using a two-dimensional coordinate system, and I am assuming that the...