Wikipedia:Peer review/Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector/archive1

Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector edit

Hi, I'd value your input on how to bring this article to FA status. It's already had some scientific peer review. Thanks! Willow 23:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, AZ _t 00:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My initial impression is that this article is too technical for anybody who has not completed at least a year of calculus and some college-level physics. (Actually a lot of this looks like third or fourth-year physics.) Even the introduction is fairly dense. The illustration is not that helpful, particularly since the curl symbol (×) looks too much like an 'x'. Some comments:

I'd suggest moving the history section up to just after the introduction.
In the basic properties section you need to define "E" where it is first used and also explain how it entered the equation(s).

Thanks. — RJH (talk) 18:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The introduction doesn't need this amount of machinery; why not say "in the plane of motion" instead of "perpendicular to the angular momentum vector"? I'll be back. Septentrionalis 00:28, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]