3 years ago

A planet orbits a sun in a clockwise elliptical orbit as shown in the diagram below

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STatiana [176]3 years ago

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Greatest gravitational energy is at "C".

The planet has to do work "against" the field to get to "C".

Also, if m v R (angular momentum) is constant then as R increases v must decrease for this term to be constant and KE = 1/2 M v^2 must decrease also to get to point C.

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