Circular Orbital Velocity & Period Calculator implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-with-binding-errata

Evidence ID

t4-023

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

The calculator has undefined behavior at zero or negative orbital radius and can produce materially different results if negative altitude is interpreted as signed depth versus an absolute altitude magnitude. The radius-input and altitude-input branches agree for valid positive values.

Required corrections

[
  {
    "vector": 4,
    "field": "v/T/min",
    "wrong": "v 3362.27, T 7081.57, min 118.03",
    "correct": "v 3361.87, T 7082.40, min 118.04",
    "cause": "GM correct; GM/r division slipped (1.130483e7 vs true 1.130218e7)"
  }
]

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "central_body": "Earth",
    "mass_kg": 5.972e+24,
    "G_m3_kg_s2": 6.6743e-11,
    "body_radius_m": 6371000,
    "altitude_m": 400000,
    "orbital_radius_m": 6771000
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "orbital_velocity_m_s": 7672.49,
    "period_s": 5544.93,
    "period_min": 92.42
  },
  "working": "GM=(6.67430×10⁻¹¹)(5.972×10²⁴)=3.98589196×10¹⁴ m³/s². r=6,371,000+400,000=6,771,000 m. v=√(GM/r)=√[(3.98589196×10¹⁴)/(6.771×10⁶)]=√(5.886711×10⁷)=7,672.49 m/s. T=2π√(r³/GM)=2π(r/v)=2π(6,771,000/7,672.49)=2π(882.50)=5,544.93 s=5,544.93/60=92.42 min."
}

Other records

Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche4/tranche4-results.json
• tranche errata record