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University Physics I - Classical Mechanics, 2019

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244 CHAPTER 10. GRAVITY<br />

To get the answer, recall that we found in (a) that the total mechanical energy E has gone down.<br />

But, since E is a negative number, this means the magnitude of E has gone up. Then, in the<br />

formula (10.14),<br />

E = − GMm<br />

2a<br />

the semimajor axis a must have gone down. For the original circular orbit, we had a = R; now,<br />

we must have ar min , and you want the<br />

new a to be equal to r min ).<br />

P<br />

A

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