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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/s7/1/d/solution

The initial condition makes at all times. Accessible radii obey . For and , monotonicity of gives exactly the two stated turning equations and confinement to the interval between their unique roots.
The squared condition alone omits a sign qualification. More generally both positive roots require , and are the sorted roots . For example , , , confines the orbit to , but the source's named equations reverse those labels. This is a convention issue, not a failure of confinement.

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