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  2. Airy wave theory - Wikipedia

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    Wave energy is a quantity of primary interest, since it is a primary quantity that is transported with the wave trains. [20] As can be seen above, many wave quantities like surface elevation and orbital velocity are oscillatory in nature with zero mean (within the framework of linear theory).

  3. Characteristic energy - Wikipedia

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    But the maximal velocity on the new orbit could be approximated to 33.5 km/s by assuming that it reached practical "infinity" at 3.5 km/s and that such Earth-bound "infinity" also moves with Earth's orbital velocity of about 30 km/s. The InSight mission to Mars launched with a C 3 of 8.19 km 2 /s 2. [5]

  4. Orbital speed - Wikipedia

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    In gravitationally bound systems, the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around either the barycenter (the combined center of mass) or, if one body is much more massive than the other bodies of the system combined, its speed relative to the center of mass of the most massive body.

  5. Gauss's method - Wikipedia

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    The orbital state vectors have now been found, the position (r 2) and velocity (v 2) vector for the second observation of the orbiting body. With these two vectors, the orbital elements can be found and the orbit determined.

  6. Orbital state vectors - Wikipedia

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    Orbital position vector, orbital velocity vector, other orbital elements. In astrodynamics and celestial dynamics, the orbital state vectors (sometimes state vectors) of an orbit are Cartesian vectors of position and velocity that together with their time () uniquely determine the trajectory of the orbiting body in space.

  7. Orbital velocity - Wikipedia

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    Orbital velocity may refer to the following: The orbital angular velocity; The orbital speed of a revolving body in a gravitational field. The velocity of particles due to wave motion, such as those in wind waves; The equivalent velocity of a bound electron needed to produce its orbital kinetic energy

  8. Stokes wave - Wikipedia

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    Stokes's first definition of wave celerity has, for a pure wave motion, the mean value of the horizontal Eulerian flow-velocity Ū E at any location below trough level equal to zero. Due to the irrotationality of potential flow, together with the horizontal sea bed and periodicity the mean horizontal velocity, the mean horizontal velocity is a ...

  9. Two-body problem - Wikipedia

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    The resulting equation: ¨ = shows that the velocity = of the center of mass is constant, from which follows that the total momentum m 1 v 1 + m 2 v 2 is also constant (conservation of momentum). Hence, the position R ( t ) of the center of mass can be determined at all times from the initial positions and velocities.