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An elliptic gravitational relative orbit checked on declared model data: m, , m, m, J and s, with
A numerical consistency check of the elliptic-branch formulas of the adopted gravitational two-label model on declared model data: the conic parameter, semiaxes, energy, period by two routes, the third-law form under the declared mass identification, the areal rate and the barycentric semiaxes. Every number is a declared model datum or an exact consequence of the cited items; the example asserts no observation, no measurement and no applicability of the model to any real system.
Example
Declare the gravitational two-label model of Adopted two-label gravitational model: the inverse-square pair potential with coupling parameters, the empirical mass identification, and the measured value and uncertainty of the Newtonian constant clause (i) with time window and the following model data (decimal numbers declared for this computation; is a declared datum of the example, not the measured value of clause (iii), and the couplings are identified with the inertial masses as in clause (ii)): Suppose a motion of this model has a relative orbit with angular momentum magnitude , conic parameter and eccentricity (the conic data of The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clause 1). Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()), as in the cited conic and period items. Then the cited items predict, as exact consequences of these data:
- the energy , and with , consistent with the elliptic branch;
- the semiaxes and , with ;
- the relative period , so ;
- the third-law form of Kepler's third law for the gravitational two-label model: the relative period is , so under the mass identification, and both labels are periodic relative to the centre of mass clause 2 under the declared identification;
- the areal rate and the identity ;
- both labels trace ellipses with the centre of mass at a focus, the same eccentricity , and semimajor axes (equal masses), each periodic about the centre of mass with period .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The declared model data , , , , , , and . Bare numbers in the arithmetic below are numerical values in the SI units declared in the Example; explicitly unit-bearing equalities are equalities of quantities.
The Axiom of Countable Choice is assumed (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
Model and conic data (Adopted two-label gravitational model: the inverse-square pair potential with coupling parameters, the empirical mass identification, and the measured value and uncertainty of the Newtonian constant clauses (i)-(ii), Adopted central-force model class: static central pair potentials, the reduced one-label problem, the fixed-centre idealization, reading conventions and exclusions clauses (i)-(ii), The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clauses 1 and 3, Central-force trajectories: the central-force equation, angular momentum, energy and the effective potential): with the identification , , ; for a motion with the stated conic data, , , , and each label's orbit about the centre of mass is the scaled conic with parameters and and the same eccentricity.
Period and third law (Kepler's third law for the gravitational two-label model: the relative period is , so under the mass identification, and both labels are periodic relative to the centre of mass clauses 1-2, Planarity of the reduced orbit and the area law: the areal-velocity vector is the constant , the swept-area rate is , and both labels sweep equal areas in equal times about the centre of mass clauses 2-3): , , and with the identification ; the areal rate is .
Arithmetic: decimal multiplication and powers; , , , and ; exact fractions are used throughout (Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length for the real-arithmetic conventions, Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework for the SI reading of the dimensions).
Verification
Energy: the coefficient is ; , so , and corresponds to as The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clause 1 states.
Semiaxes: , so m and m; and m, so holds.
Period: , while , hence . Thus . The second route gives , so and .
Third law with the declared identification: . Therefore , equal to from step 3.1.
Areal rate: , and , so .
Barycentric orbits: by [L1] each label's conic has parameter m, eccentricity and semimajor axis m; the periods about the centre of mass are by Kepler's third law for the gravitational two-label model: the relative period is , so under the mass identification, and both labels are periodic relative to the centre of mass clause 3, and with equal masses both semiaxes are equal.
Remarks
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Conditional on the existence of the motion. The check verifies the numerical consequences of the cited items for any motion with these conic data; it does not construct the motion, and the existence of the elliptic branch is not part of the computation.
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Declared data only. The numbers and the declared are model data chosen for exact arithmetic; no measured constant is used, and no real system is modelled.
Depends on
Adopted central-force model class: static central pair potentials, the reduced one-label problem, the fixed-centre idealization, reading conventions and exclusions
Adopted two-label gravitational model: the inverse-square pair potential with coupling parameters, the empirical mass identification, and the measured value and uncertainty of the Newtonian constant
Two-body reduction of a static central pair-potential model: the relative coordinate is a central-force trajectory for the reduced mass, the centre of mass moves uniformly, and the reconstruction is a bijection
Planarity of the reduced orbit and the area law: the areal-velocity vector is the constant , the swept-area rate is , and both labels sweep equal areas in equal times about the centre of mass
The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses
Kepler's third law for the gravitational two-label model: the relative period is , so under the mass identification, and both labels are periodic relative to the centre of mass
Central-force trajectories: the central-force equation, angular momentum, energy and the effective potential
Dimensions and SI unit conventions of the non-relativistic classical mechanics framework
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- Konstantin Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 3.4, Eqs. (3.59)-(3.64b): the elliptic conic, its semiaxes and the period, checked here on declared decimal data
- David Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge), Section 2.5.4, printed pp. 32-33 (PDF pp. 38-39): the elliptic branch of the gravitational two-body problem, the reduced mass and the energy classification