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radius at that point is always the same at every point on the orbit. Eor example, |
the closer the planet is to the sun, the faster it is going, but by how much? By |
the following amount: if instead of letting the planet go around the sun, we were |
to change the direction (but not the magnitude) of its velocity and make it move |
radially, and then we let ¡it fall from some special radius to the radius of interest, |
the new speed would be the same as the speed it had in the actual orbit, because |
this is just another example of a complicated path. So long as we come baeck to |
the same distance, the kinetic energy will be the same. 5o, whether the motion is |
the real, undisturbed one, or is changed in direction by channels, by frictionless |
constraints, the kinetic energy with which the planet arrives at a point will be |
the same. |
Thus, when we make a numerical analysis of the motion of the planet in is |
orbit, as we did earlier, we can check whether or not we are making appreciable |
errors by calculating this constant quantity, the energy, at every step, and I1§ |
should not change. For the orbit of Table 9-2 the energy does change,* it changes |
by some 1.5 percent from the beginning to the end. Why? Either because for |
the numerical method we use fñnite intervals, or else because we made a slight |
mistake somewhere in arithmetic. |
Let us consider the energy in another case: the problem of a mass on a spring. |
When we displace the mass from its balanced position, the restoring fÍorce is |
* 'The energy per unit mass is Hơi: + 92) — 1/zr in the units of Table 9-2. |
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proportional to the displacement. In those circumstances, can we work out a law |
for conservation of energy? Yes, because the work done by such a force is |
H5 % |
w= Paz= | —k# dư = —šk#Ÿ. (13.13) |
'Therefore, for a mass on a spring we have that the kinetic energy of the oscillating |
mass plus skz? 1s a constant. Let us see how this works. We pull the mass down; |
1 is standing still and so is speed is zero. But zø is not zero, + is at is maximum, |
so there is some energy, the potential energy, of course. Now we release the mass |
and things begin to happen (the details not to be discussed), but at any instant |
the kinetie plus potential energy must be a constant. Eor example, after the mass |
1s on its way past the original equilibrium point, the position + equals zero, but |
that is when it has its biggest ø2, and as it gets more #2 it gets less 02, and so |
on. So the balance of z7 and œ2 is maintained as the mass goes up and down. |
'Thus we have another rule now, that the potential energy for a spring is skz, 1Í |
the force is —k#. |
13-3 Summation of energy |
Now we go on to the more general consideration of what happens when there |
are large numbers of objects. Suppose we have the complicated problem of many |
objects, which we label ¿ = 1, 2, 3,..., all exerting gravitational pulls on each |
other. What happens then? We shall prove that if we add the kinetic energies |
of all the particles, and add to this the sum, over all pøirs of particles, of their |
mutual gravitational potential energy, —GMm/r;¡;, the total is a constant: |
1 2 Gm¿m; |
» 51n;U; + » TT g = cCOnSf. (13.14) |
? (pairs 27) Ñ |
How do we prove it? We diferentiate each side with respect to time and get |
zero. When we diferentiate 1m02, we fnd derivatives of the velocity that are |
the forces, Just as in Eq. (13.5). We replace these forces by the law of force that |
we know from Newton”s law of gravity and then we notice that what is left is |
minus the time derivative of |
» Gmm; |
palrs Tj |
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The time derivative of the kinetic energy is |
d 1 2 dù; |
n2 5n =2 min X“. |
=) Fiui (13.15) |
Gm1n;T'; |
D j 1ÿ |
The time derivative of the potential energy is |
d Gm¿m; _— Gm¿m; đĩ;; |
3 ` xa, ' |
pairs palrs +2 |
Tịj = Vị — #7)” + (Mì — 9)” + (3í — 2): |
so that |
đĩ;; 1 d+; d+; |
—=“=_—_— |2(z;—z;)| —-_— “” |
dE — 2ny | ứ “0Í dt — đi ) |
đụi — đụ; |
2(— ;)| — —--Sˆ |
+36, =1) (SE — Sự) |
đzi¿ — dz; |
2(z;¿T—z;)| - ° |
+3 Hi dt — dị )| |
¿ — Ðÿ |
—= ¿7 * ———————— |
— +22 T¡j Xà) Ti |
since T¡j — TTj¡, while T¡j — Ti. 'Thus |
d Gm¿m; Gm1m;1T'; Gm;1n¿T;¡ |
dt » có Tụ 2> | Tử _v® THỊ 3.16) |
pairs pairs +2 4! |
Now we must note carefully what 3 ){Š)} and 3` mean. In Eq. (13.15), 3 {5`} |
? 3 pairs Ũ 3 |
means that ? takes on all values ? = 1, 2, 3,... in turn, and for each value oŸ ¿, |
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the index 7 takes on all values except ?. Thus if ¿ = 3, 7 takes on the values 1, 2, |
In Eq. (13.16), on the other hand, Ề` means that given values of ? and 7 |
occur only once. 'Phus the particle pair 1 and 3 contributes only one term to the |
sum. 'To keep track of this, we might agree to let ¿ range over all values 1, 2, |
3,..., and for each ¿ let 7 range only over values greø‡er than ¿. Thus iŸ ¿ = 3, 7 |
could only have values 4, 5, 6,... But we notice that for each z, j7 value there are |
©wo contributions to the sum, one involving ¿, and the other ø;, and that these |
terms have the same appearance as those of Eq. (13.15), where ai values of ? |
and 7 (except 2 = 7) are included in the sum. Therefore, by matching the terms |
one by one, we see that Eqs. (13.16) and (13.15) are precisely the same, but of |
opposite sign, so that the time derivative of the kinetic plus potential energy is |
indeed zero. 'Thus we see that, for many objects, ¿he kứnetic energụ is the sum |
0ƒ the contributions [rom cach ?ndiuidual ob7ect, and that the potential energy |
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