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Tethered satellites (Posted on 2005-04-13) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Two identical spheres are connected by an elastic tether. The tether obeys Hooke's Law for ideal springs. At a particular moment in time, the tether is in a straight line, at its resting length, neither stretching nor contracting. This assembly is then placed into a circular orbit around the Earth, and oriented so that a line drawn from one sphere through the tether and the other sphere points directly at the Earth.

Give a qualitative description of the motion of the two spheres relative to each other over time.

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Interesting sites | Comment 11 of 13 |

Some interesting sites are found when Googling:

Lyapunov tether 


  Posted by Hugo on 2005-04-14 15:22:22
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