Lab VII Orbital Motion

  1. Use Maple to do problem 8-2 in classical dynamics by Marion and Thornton using Maple. That is show that 8.39 is the result of the integral of 8.38.

  2. Use maple to explore the orbits given by equation 8.41.

    1. Plot orbits for different values of e when a is set to 1. Include e = 0, several values between 0 and 1, =1 and > 1.

    2. What is the effect of increasing a ?