Show that the total energy E of an earth satellite of mass m describing an elliptic orbit is E= ?? GMm/(rA + rP), where M is the mass of the earth, and rA and rP represent, respectively, the maximum and minimum distances of the orbit to the center of the earth. (Recall that the gravitational potential energy of a satellite was defined as being zero at an infinite distance from the earth.)

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A -Tp-P