In the Taylor\'s Classical Mechanics textbook\'s Chapter 8 we have learnt about

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In the Taylor's Classical Mechanics textbook's Chapter 8 we have learnt about orbit dynamics with application to an orbiting object (e.g., a planet or a comet) orbiting a central massive entity (e.g., a star) in a Euclidean ("flat", undistorted) space. Here gravity is considered to be a force acting between masses. The effective potential per unit mass (the physical gravitational potential plus the centrifugal potential) experienced in the orbiting object's own (non-inertial) reference frame can be expressed as: V_EFF = -GM/r + l^2 (l/2r^2) where r = separation distance between the orbiting object and the central massive entity, M, is the central object's mass, and l is the orbiting objects angular momentum per unit mass. The orbiting object's own mass, m

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Angular momentum is nothing but the product of radial distance and the linear momentum.

The angular momentum per unit mass has the units of meter.

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