A comet in an extremely elliptical orbit about a star has, of course, a maximum orbit radius. By comparison, it's minimum orbit radius may be nearly 0. Make plots of the potential energy and a plausible total energy E versus radius on the same set of axes. Identify the classical turning points on your plot.

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ANSWER To make the plots of potential energy and total energy versus radius we need to start with the equations for these quantities The potential ene... View the full answer