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Increasing the speed of a circular orbit
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[QUOTE="Felipe good guy, post: 6165668, member: 660447"] Thanks Janus ! Thanks for your confirmation ! I do remember some points on this subject in classical mechanics. I guess I will need to review some lecture notes on the topic. Among some curious things about orbital energy is the following: It is nice and clear that the mechanical energy E = K+V , suffices to determine the type of orbit. But this encapsulates all the complications from the momentum equation: for example the fact that for non-circular orbits, the kinetic energy, function of the speed, comes from radial and tangential components of velocity. There is this separation on the tangential kinetic energy and the effective potential.. Whatever, it blows my mind that the formula above captures the vector problem, and finally simply the 'signs, 0s and extremes' of E dictate the type of orbit... amazing ! cheers [/QUOTE]
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