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Undergrad Deriving Kepler's Law: Negative Sign Explained
hi, I am having trouble understanding what happens to the negative sign when i try to derive keplers law. v=d/t where d is the distance around one orbit, so d=2rpi and t is the time for one orbit in seconds which i will call T so v=2rpi/T now using Ep=-Gm1m2/r Ep is gravitational...- pureblade
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