Generator

The orbit-speed generator

Speed against distance, for orbits of the same period
Speed against distance, for orbits of the same period. Orbital speed against distance from the primary. Every orbit with the same semi-major axis follows the same curve; the eccentricity decides only which stretch of it the body uses.

Orbital speed against distance from the primary. Every orbit with the same semi-major axis follows the same curve; the eccentricity decides only which stretch of it the body uses.

1 essay calls orbit-speed. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

Where it is called

Every figure listed here is the same construction drawn at different numbers, so a correction to one is a correction to all of them.

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