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A solution to a cubic – Barker's equation for parabolic trajectories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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Except for the circle, for which the true anomaly v is proportional to the time t, the position of a body in orbit about a central body at a given time is simplest to derive for a parabola. The classical determination of the time of flight on a parabolic trajectory is through the integration of the dynamic equations of motion. (See Appendix.)
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