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![[Post New]](/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) posted on 14 Jul 2008 15:28:44 IST
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Reduced Mass
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The relative motion of two objects that are acted upon by a central force can be described by Newton's 2nd Law as if they were a single mass with a value called the "reduced mass".
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The relative acceleration of the two masses is
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Since a2 is negative, this can be rewritten in terms of the magnitudes of the quantities:
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(posted on 15 Jul 2008 00:04:46 IST)
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| dOES EVERYONE KNOW IT??? |
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