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>From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 12:50:28 PM
>Subject: RE: [Vo]:Anyone recognizes this astronomy integral?
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>While I'm willing to explore Miles' premise that "tangential velocity"
>shouldn't
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>be confused with "orbital velocity", the distinction Miles attempts to paint
>between the two concepts still eludes me to a large extent. Fortunately, Miles
>is aware of the fact that the distinction tends to baffle most of his readers.
>He attempts to compensate by giving additional examples. If I understand
>Mile's
>commentary, it seems obvious to me that my own CM computer simulations, which
>are obviously heuristic in nature, involve the feeding back of "orbital
>velocities" (not "tangential") into the algorithm in order to get the next x,y
>coordinate position of the orbiting satellite.
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Maybe he means speed (a scalar quantity) when he says orbital velocity, and he
means velocity (a vector quantity) when he says tangential velocity.
Harry
