Forces giving no orbit precession
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 46 (9) , 930-931
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.11519
Abstract
We show that particles moving in a central force move in closed nonprecessing orbits only if the force law is of the inverse square (Coulomb) or linear (harmonic oscillator) type.Keywords
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