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  2. Orbital mechanics - Wikipedia

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    To escape the Solar System from a location at a distance from the Sun equal to the distance Sun–Earth, but not close to the Earth, requires around 42 km/s velocity, but there will be "partial credit" for the Earth's orbital velocity for spacecraft launched from Earth, if their further acceleration (due to the propulsion system) carries them ...

  3. Characteristic energy - Wikipedia

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    In the second edition (1914) of this book, Moulton solves the problem of the motion of two bodies under an attractive gravitational force in chapter 5. After reducing the problem to the relative motion of the bodies in the plane, he defines the constant of the motion c 3 by the equation ẋ 2 + ẏ 2 = 2k 2 M/r + c 3,

  4. Orbit equation - Wikipedia

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    In astrodynamics, an orbit equation defines the path of orbiting body around central body relative to , without specifying position as a function of time.Under standard assumptions, a body moving under the influence of a force, directed to a central body, with a magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance (such as gravity), has an orbit that is a conic section (i.e. circular ...

  5. Murnaghan equation of state - Wikipedia

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    In practice, the Murnaghan equation is used to perform a regression on a data set, where one gets the values of the coefficients K 0 and K ' 0. These coefficients obtained, and knowing the value of the volume to ambient conditions, then we are in principle able to calculate the volume, density and bulk modulus for any pressure.

  6. Birch–Murnaghan equation of state - Wikipedia

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    The Birch–Murnaghan isothermal equation of state, published in 1947 by Albert Francis Birch of Harvard, [1] is a relationship between the volume of a body and the pressure to which it is subjected. Birch proposed this equation based on the work of Francis Dominic Murnaghan of Johns Hopkins University published in 1944, [ 2 ] so that the ...

  7. Two-body problem in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Schwarzschild radius r s of the Earth is roughly 9 mm (3 ⁄ 8 inch); at the surface of the Earth, the corrections to Newtonian gravity are only one part in a billion. The Schwarzschild radius of the Sun is much larger, roughly 2953 meters, but at its surface, the ratio r s / r is roughly 4 parts in a million.

  8. Circular orbit - Wikipedia

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    The formula is dimensionless, describing a ratio true for all units of measure applied uniformly across the formula. If the numerical value a {\displaystyle \mathbf {a} } is measured in meters per second squared, then the numerical values v {\displaystyle v\,} will be in meters per second, r {\displaystyle r\,} in meters, and ω {\displaystyle ...

  9. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    We see that in the Friedmann equations, a(t) does not depend on which coordinate system we chose for spatial slices. There are two commonly used choices for a and k which describe the same physics: k = +1, 0 or −1 depending on whether the shape of the universe is a closed 3-sphere, flat (Euclidean space) or an open 3-hyperboloid, respectively ...