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Author: Randy Harris
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Chapter 7, Problem 87CE

(a)

To determine

The angular momentum of the comet at perihelion.

(b)

To determine

Whether the sum of the gravitational energy and the rotational energy at the perihelion and aphelion are equal.

(c)

To determine

The sum of the gravitational potential energy and the rotational energy when the orbit is fifty times the perihelion.

(d)

To determine

The value of the radius of the orbit and its angular momentum.

(e)

To determine

The relation for the observation of the division of the kinetic energy in the hydrogen electron orbit of the same n but different l .

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