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Master-of-Ceremony t1_j31pqtm wrote

Reply to comment by Redbelly98 in How fast would a body fall to earth if there was no atmosphere to stop it from accelerating past a terminal velocity? by straubzilla

More accurately, it’s just that you’ve defined you’re potential to be zero at infinity. You could’ve defined it to be anything (finite) at infinity so long as you remember to add that to the energy you have at radius r too

There’s important distinction between assuming and defining!

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