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A planet is revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit. Which out of the following remains constant.
(a) Linear speed (b) angular momentum
( c) kinetic energy (d) potential energy (e) total energy throughout its orbit.

A

speed

B

kinetic energy

C

angular momentum

D

angular speed

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