University of South Carolina PHYS 701 1 Problem 3-16 Prove that in a Kepler elliptic orbit with small eccentricity e the angular motion of a particle as viewed from the empty focus of the ellipse is uniform to flrst order in e. The empty focus is the focus that is not the center of attraction. It is this theorem that enables the Ptolemaic picture of planetary motion t ...[Show More]
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