The orbital motion of a planet around the Sun was one of the first important problems to be analyzed in terms of Newton’s laws of motion. The gravitational force attracting a planet to the Sun is a central force, that is, a force directed towards a fixed point. The motion of a planet is a prime example of the more general problem of the behavior of a particle acted upon by a central force.
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