Here’s how you put it all together and figure out the total energy of the system. This is useful when you’re trying to figure out something that you can’t otherwise solve for… let me show you with a set of videos here. Remember, for satellites the only force we have on the object is due to gravity, so the external work force term always goes to zero like this:

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