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IF a particle of mass m be brought from infinity to distance r by the action of a central attraction varying as the inverse square of the distance, the potential energy exhausted in the process is mμ/r, where μ is the “intensity of the centre”. If the particle has experienced no resistance to its motion the kinetic energy is given by the equation
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GRAY, A. Energy in Planetary Motions. Nature 91, 581–582 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091581c0
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