Wednesday, July 25, 2018

homework and exercises - How can we tell the potential from the orbit?



The orbit is $$r(θ) = a(1+\cos θ).$$ The orbit of the particle is in polar coordinates. How can we tell the potential $U(r)$ from this? $U(r)$ goes to zero at infinity.




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