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I got hung up by the formula for a triangle in the figure and forgot that the distance covered on a circumference is s = rθ, so it would make sense for it to approximate the height of a very small triangle. Thank you for the reply!

Robert Braeunig has an great blog on rocket science here: http://www.braeunig.us/space/index.htm, and I've been trying to follow the math his piece on Orbital Mechanics. I'm having trouble in particular following his description on Kepler's 2nd law, here's how he puts it: Figure 4.5...