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At a certain point in its elliptical orbit about the Sun, a planet receives a small...

At a certain point in its elliptical orbit about the Sun, a planet receives a small tangential impulse so that its velocity changes from v to v + δv, Find the resultant small changes in a, the semimajor axis. (Hint: You may find it helpful to approximate the planet’s orbits as nearly circular.)

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