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I was wondering if anyone knew of a calculation showing that
the kinetic energy of an object in a circular orbit is equal
to half of the potential energy, where the calculation does
*not* use acceleration or force at all. Is there an argument
for this based purely on energy concepts? It occurred to me
that there should be, but I can't think of it.