On 22.05.2023 18:50, bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote:
Furthermore it is broadly considered that the potential energy equals the kinetic energy of the system....
This does not even hold for planetary systems/orbits. It's a beginners error...
On an elliptic orbit trajectory there are just two points (even this is simplified due to precision/nutation) where this E-kin = E-pot holds.
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