All Questions
Tagged with relative-motion orbital-motion
2
questions
6
votes
2
answers
680
views
How does the orbital motion of reduced mass tell us how the individual planets/stars move?
To give context to my question, here is Kepler's first Law restated in terms of reduced mass. Here, $\vec{r}$ is the position vector of the reduced mass whose origin lies at the centre of mass of the ...
- 181
1
vote
3
answers
1k
views
Motion of one body with reference to another
I studied that Galileo was punished by the church for teaching that the sun is stationary and the earth moves around it. His opponents held the view that earth is stationary and sun moves around it.
...
- 1,829