57: Celestial Mechanics
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The area of classical mechanics that deals with the orbits of astronomical bodies around each other under the influence of gravity is called celestial mechanics. Celestial mechanics is a vast (and very interesting) field; here we'll get just a taste for how to do some basic calculations, where we examine a simple orbit of one body around another — the so-called "two-body problem".