An interesting, useful, and simple, but not widely known property of Keplerian motion relating to the circular shape of the orbit in velocity space is discussed in this paper. The property is illustrated by a computer simulation program. A simple dynamical derivation of the circular shape of the velocity hodograph is suggested.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)297-302
Number of pages6
JournalEuropean Journal of Physics
Volume21
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2000

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