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  2. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    Solving applications dealing with non-uniform circular motion involves force analysis. With a uniform circular motion, the only force acting upon an object traveling in a circle is the centripetal force. In a non-uniform circular motion, there are additional forces acting on the object due to a non-zero tangential acceleration.

  3. Newton's theorem of revolving orbits - Wikipedia

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    The term "radial motion" signifies the motion towards or away from the center of force, whereas the angular motion is perpendicular to the radial motion. Isaac Newton derived this theorem in Propositions 43–45 of Book I of his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica , first published in 1687.

  4. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    Per Barrow-Green, "[t]he problem is then to ascertain the motion of the third body." [4]: 11 That is to say, this two-body motion is taken to consist of circular orbits around the center of mass, and the planetoid is assumed to move in the plane defined by the circular orbits.

  5. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler in 1609 (except the third law, and was fully published in 1619), describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. These laws replaced circular orbits and epicycles in the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus with elliptical orbits and explained how planetary ...

  6. Circular orbit - Wikipedia

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    A circular orbit is depicted in the top-left quadrant of this diagram, where the gravitational potential well of the central mass shows potential energy, and the kinetic energy of the orbital speed is shown in red. The height of the kinetic energy remains constant throughout the constant speed circular orbit.

  7. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Newton's cannonball is a thought experiment that interpolates between projectile motion and uniform circular motion. A cannonball that is lobbed weakly off the edge of a tall cliff will hit the ground in the same amount of time as if it were dropped from rest, because the force of gravity only affects the cannonball's momentum in the downward ...

  8. Centripetal force - Wikipedia

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    These results agree with those above for nonuniform circular motion. See also the article on non-uniform circular motion. If this acceleration is multiplied by the particle mass, the leading term is the centripetal force and the negative of the second term related to angular acceleration is sometimes called the Euler force. [22]

  9. Kepler's equation - Wikipedia

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    It was derived by Johannes Kepler in 1609 in Chapter 60 of his Astronomia nova, [1] [2] and in book V of his Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (1621) Kepler proposed an iterative solution to the equation. [3] [4] This equation and its solution, however, first appeared in a 9th-century work by Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, which dealt with problems ...