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Here we will look in detail at unbound systems, for which either the central force is repulsive or the incoming particle has sufficiently large kinetic energy that the total energy of the system is positive. In this chapter, we develop the tools needed to calculate the deflection angles of two particles as a function of the impact parameter and initial velocity of the incoming particle.
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The Astronomical Unit AU is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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Benacquista, M.J., Romano, J.D. (2018). Scattering. In: Classical Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68780-3_5
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