From external pages
editHow the variables are used (& re-used) on some of the pages I refer to.
Kind of cheesy name, but what the heck.
force | |
mass of objects 1 & 2 | |
gravitational constant | |
distance (scalar) | |
distance (scalar) | |
displacement (vector) | |
kinetic energy | |
work | |
potential energy | |
gravitational force | |
mechanical energy | |
arbitrary vectors | |
their magnitudes | |
the angle between and | |
complement of α | |
velocity, | |
speed | |
time | |
specific mechanical energy | |
momentum | |
angular momentum | |
specific angular momentum, | |
arbitrary vectors | |
vector constant of integration | |
angle between and | |
semilatus rectum | |
semimajor axis | |
(distance between foci)/2 | |
directrix of a conic section | |
distance between directrix and focus | |
angle to | |
eccentricity | |
distance at periapsis and apoapsis | |
velocity/speed at periapsis and apoapsis |
mass of objects 1 & 2 | |
radius of objects 1 & 2 | |
reduced mass | |
displacement from body 1 to body 2, | |
momentum | |
distance between bodies, | |
gravitational constant | |
angular momentum, | |
angular momentum per mass, | |
magnitude of | |
angle from arbitrary direction | |
area | |
time | |
orbital energy | |
specific energy | |
Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, | |
eccentricity | |
velocity/speed | |
semilatus rectum | |
arbitrary constant | |
arbitrary constant | |
semimajor axis | |
argument of pericenter | |