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then, you will get the same answer as the person using this formula.
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So, that's very important to understand
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how these two are saying the same thing.
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It is best understood in terms of the graph that I've drawn for you.
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You shift your origin to one place
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and you also shift the zero potential to one place.
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Now, for a circular orbit, what's the energy?
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It's (1/2)·m·v^2 - G·M·m / r.
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But we know that (1/2)·m·v^2 is v^2
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and m·v^2 is a centrifugal force,
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I mean the centripetal force.
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So therefore, you can write that as