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A body is acted upon by a force directed towards a fixed point, whose magnitude is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the body from that point. The path of the body will be [RPMT 2005]

Answer: (A)

Solution

An inverse-square central attractive force produces bound Keplerian orbits, whose general closed shape is an ellipse (a circle being only a

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