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Old 02-17-2005, 03:38 PM   #22 (permalink)
fckm
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gy. And what I wanted to show is that the potential energy would increase as well as kinetic energy as they moved closer because of that inverse square relation. I don't truly care about impact, I want to see what it looks like going towards impact.
err, shouldn't potential energy decrease?

U=-GM/r

as r decreases, U decreases.
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