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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Kepler's laws

Enunciate the Kepler's Laws.

Kepler's first law: the orbit of every planet is an ellipse wth the Sun at one of the two foci.

Kepler's second law: a line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.



Kepler's third law: the square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

P2a3

P=orbitalperiodofaplanet
a=semimajoraxisoftheorbit

In the case of a circular orbit:

4π2/P2=GM/R3

Misthemassofthelargerbody
Risthedistancebetweenthecentresofthetwomasses

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gonfer


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