Wednesday, July 25, 2018

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



The orbit is r(θ)=a(1+cosθ).

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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