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Kepler’s Laws What they tell us, and where they come from

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Page 1: Kepler’s Laws What they tell us, and where they come from

Kepler’s Laws

What they tell us, and where they come from

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Kepler’s Laws

What they tell us, and where they come from

Question: why did I put this picture here? How is it related to Kepler’s Laws?

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Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion

• The orbits of planets (and everything else) are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus.

• A line from the Sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time

• The semimajor axes and orbital periods are related by the Harmonic Law

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A question (?)

Is Kepler’s 3rd Law, a3=P2 only due to the fact that the planets

further out have a longer orbit to complete in a period?

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Kepler’s Laws are even more general than orbits in the solar system…they

govern orbits throughout the universe, like those of stars at the center of the

Milky Way galaxy

http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso0846h

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Applications of Kepler’s Laws: variations in the opposition of Mars

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Another application of Kepler’s 1st Law: the orbit of the Earth’s Moon.

Explains difference between total and annular solar eclipses

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How long does it take for a trip to Mars?

Orbit of Earth

Orbit of Mars

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Next topic: where do Kepler’s Laws come from

What is the deeper significance of them? Why is nature that way?

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Isaac Newton…beginning of modern physics

Newton’s laws of motions: the foundation of physics and the start for our understanding of orbits

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Newton’s Laws of Motion…vocabulary

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Newton’s Laws of Motion

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The net force is what moves things

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Demonstrations of Newton’s Laws of Motion

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Demonstrations of Newton’s Laws of Motion

What does this have to do with solar system objects? Or astronomy?

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The nature of Gravity: gravity holds the solar system together

Gravity is an attractive force between two objects because they have mass

M mr

So what does this have to do with the motion of the planets?

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The gravitational force from spherical object

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Centripetal acceleration and central force