Keplerian orbit Comparison Table

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Keplerian orbit comparison table

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conic section geometrical object 2

orbit orbital element motion physics The path in space followed by a celestial body.

Keplerian orbit osculating element conic section physics 2 osculating orbit The orbit of a spherical particle of a finite mass around another spherical particle, also of finite mass, by virtue of the gravitational attraction between them. In the Bohr-Sommerfeld picture of atoms, the electrons are considered as describing Keplerian orbits in the field of the positive nucleus by virtue of the inverse square electric attraction between the electrons and the nuclei.

Subject	has parameter	is a kind of	has domain	has dimension	has synonym	has definition
conic section		geometrical object		2
orbit	orbital element	motion	physics			The path in space followed by a celestial body.
Keplerian orbit	osculating element	conic section	physics	2	osculating orbit	The orbit of a spherical particle of a finite mass around another spherical particle, also of finite mass, by virtue of the gravitational attraction between them. In the Bohr-Sommerfeld picture of atoms, the electrons are considered as describing Keplerian orbits in the field of the positive nucleus by virtue of the inverse square electric attraction between the electrons and the nuclei.

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