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• Energy is conserved.

  • What is energy?
  • For an orbit
    • Kinetic energy: KE=mv2/2
    • Potential energy: PE=-G m1 m2/r
    • KE+PE=constant. If r decreases, v increases.
  • Other energy: light energy, sound energy, electrical energy, binding energy

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