Orbital Motion

Explore circular, elliptical, and escape-like trajectories in an inverse-square gravitational field.

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Keyboard: Space toggles play, R resets, ] steps forward, [ returns to the initial state.

A gravitation simulation using symplectic integration so learners can see stable orbital motion without the energy drift of basic Euler stepping.

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