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19-Tanzanite
Mar 9, 2015 4:47 PM UTC

The way you are doing it looks pretty good to me. Your residuals are down in the region of 10^-8 to10^-9, and given that your starting point is a numerical solution from odesolve anything better would be meaningless. The only thing I would do differently is that I would set up a vector of times, and then have one vectorized equation in the solve block rather than 12 separate equations.

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24-Ruby IV
Mar 9, 2015 6:29 PM UTC

Thanks Richard!

It will be one chapter of the book "Fine Math with Mathcad". Would you be one coauthor

No problem to convert the the orbit as ellipse - see please the attach.

And second.

I can nor create one orbit as parabola

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19-Tanzanite
Mar 9, 2015 9:48 PM UTC
It will be one chapter of the book "Fine Math with Mathcad". Would you be one coauthor

Thanks for the consideration, but that sounds like it might be a lot of work

I can nor create one orbit as parabola

You can't have an orbit as a parabola, because if it's a parabola it's not an orbit

The parabolic trajectory is the limiting case of the hyperbolic trajectory, when the orbiting body just achieves escape velocity ( i.e. it's the boundary case between an elliptical orbit and a hyperbolic trajectory). In such a case there is a very specific relationship between the orbital velocity and the radial distance. See the attached worksheet

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