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A problem Understanding how a two-body system of planets starts rotating around barycentre
Consider,We are Creating a Two-body system in free space,Where no other mass exists,Let's Take First Mass M1 and hold it,Now bring Second Mass M2,hold it up,Now we are giving a suddenly impulse To M1 ...
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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 ...
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Relative speed of Geostationary satellite with respect to Earth?
I was wondering whether relative speed of geostationary satellite with respect to earth is zero or not. Since angular velocity of satellite about earth is same as angular speed of earth about its own ...
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