Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
This lecture covers the determination of trajectory parameters in central motion by simplifying the system into two equations with two unknowns. It explores the types of trajectories (circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) based on the sign of the constant K. The lecture also delves into the effective potential, energy interpretation, and the application of Kepler's laws to central motion scenarios.