the two-body problem
the way it feels to orbit you to be wrapped around and enclosed by you newton’s 3rd law stating the force between two particles acts along the line between their positions, is it enough to wish upon binary stars?
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they say two-body motion is planar that is the motion of two bodies with respect to each other always lies in the plane, flat assuming two bodies interact only with one another
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assuming two bodies like the look of things assuming one buys the other a drink first baby, where is your barycenter this, the energy of the two-body system it’s kinetic the friction the
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only force affecting each body: attraction this is the two-body problem my body hunting your body like the moon hunts the earth or like the earth hunts the sun encircling
