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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
The period of the negative-energy gravitational relative orbit in the adopted two-label model: the relative motion is periodic, its period is , the form holds when the gravitational couplings are identified with the inertial masses, each label is periodic about the centre of mass while its absolute motion advances by per period, and the area swept per period is . The result is a conditional deduction from the adopted model and its declared empirical identification; it reports no observation and no measured value.
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Adopt the two-label gravitational 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): inertial masses , , reduced mass , gravitational couplings , , and the potential on . Let be a motion on a time interval with relative coordinate , angular momentum , , and energy , and let , , be its conic data (The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clauses 1 and 3). Then:
- (Period of the relative motion.) The relative motion extends uniquely to a central-force trajectory on all of (as in The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clause 3); along that extension (with its polar angular coordinate, as supplied by the cited orbit theory), if and is determined by , then and for all , and
- (Gravitational parameters.) With and , if in addition the model adopts the identification 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 (ii), this reduces to
- (Both labels.) On the global coordinate extension supplied by The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clause 3(a) (write it again as , with centre of mass ), for each the position relative to the centre of mass is periodic with period , , while the absolute motions satisfy with the constant centre-of-mass velocity of 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 clause 2; the absolute motions are periodic exactly when . The restriction of this extension to the model time window is a model motion; statements about within that model require .
- (Area per period.) The area swept by the relative radius vector in one period is , and it equals ; equivalently as in clause 1.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The gravitational two-label model with the constants , the motion with and its conic data .
The Axiom of Countable Choice is assumed (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
Reduction (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 clauses 2-4, Central-force trajectories: the central-force equation, angular momentum, energy and the effective potential, 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 relative coordinate is a central-force trajectory for with constant and constant energy ; the centre of mass is affine with constant ; and for the two labels.
Orbit theory (The inverse-square gravitational relative trajectory has the Kepler polar form: , , elliptic completeness and barycentric scaled ellipses clauses 1 and 3, Completeness and periodicity of the negative-energy Kepler orbit, with and , The subcritical Kepler conic is an ellipse with semiaxes , , focus at the origin and area ; its area is also ): for the negative-energy inverse-square trajectory of [L1], the conic data , , , apply; the relative trajectory and the reconstructed coordinate curves extend uniquely to all of , with the coordinate curves restricted to defining the extended model motion, by clause 3(a) of the cited physical theorem, and the relative trajectory is periodic with determined by and satisfying , ; and the ellipse of the conic has area , where .
Area law (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): the swept-area function of the reduced orbit has constant derivative , so the area swept over an interval of length is .
Parameters (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)): and ; the identification is an adopted empirical assumption of the model's quantitative applications; and .
Proof
Clause 1: by [L1] the relative trajectory meets the hypotheses of [L2] with , and [L2] supplies the unique extension to , the periodicity with determined by one full revolution of , and the two displayed period formulas; substituting and into and is exactly [L2].
Clause 2: substituting and from [L4] into gives ; if additionally , the numerator and denominator simplify by to .
Clause 3: use the global coordinate extension of [L2], which restricts to a model motion on . By [L1], , and , hence , is -periodic by step 1.1; also because is affine with constant derivative , so . If , this proves that both absolute motions are -periodic. Conversely, suppose either absolute motion has any positive period . For every positive integer , periodicity and the affine motion of give for all . By the conic bound in [L2], for all , so for every . Since the right side is fixed and , this forces . Thus either label has an absolute period only if , and when both are periodic.
Clause 4: by [L2] the relative motion extends to ; applying the relative areal-rate identity of [L3] to the global central-force trajectory, its swept-area function has derivative , so the area swept over one period is . Since is a strictly increasing bijection with on the extension, the substitution rule gives by the -periodicity of and [L2]; combining with gives .
Remarks
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Which hypotheses carry the numerical form. Clauses 1, 3 and 4 use only the central model and the gravitational parameters symbolically; the simplification of clause 2 to uses the empirical identification 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 (ii), which is not a theorem of the framework.
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No measured value. , , the masses and are model data or symbols; no observation, calibration or uncertainty is used here, and no numerical prediction is made.
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Equal periods for both labels. Clause 3 states that both labels share the relative period about the centre of mass while the centre of mass may drift; the absolute motions are periodic only in the zero-total-momentum case.
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
Central-force trajectories: the central-force equation, angular momentum, energy and the effective potential
Completeness and periodicity of the negative-energy Kepler orbit, with and
The subcritical Kepler conic is an ellipse with semiaxes , , focus at the origin and area ; its area is also
Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- Konstantin Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics (title page last edited September 1, 2026), Section 3.4, Eqs. (3.64a)-(3.64b), chapter page 15 (PDF page 48): $T=\pi ab/(L_z/2m)$ and $T=2\pi a^{3/2}\sqrt{m/\alpha}$, with the third Kepler law $T\propto a^{3/2}$ for the gravitational case
- David Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge), Section 2.5.4, printed pp. 32-33 (PDF pp. 38-39): the elliptic branch of the inverse-square problem, its period and the scaling with the semimajor axis
- Iain Stewart, Advanced Classical Mechanics (MIT 8.09/8.309 Fall 2014 course text), Section 4.5, printed p. 81 (PDF p. 84) and Section 4.6: the closed Kepler orbit at negative energy and the period of its radial and angular motion