Concept — Three laws describing the orbital motion of planets.
Present in chapters
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Linked atoms
20 linked atoms.
08 Gravitazione universale
- Altitude of the geostationary orbit
- Conservation of angular momentum and Kepler’s second law
- From Kepler to Newton: universal gravity
- Worked exercise: the Sun’s mass from Kepler
- Speculative physics: G doubled
- Kepler’s laws
- Mass of an unknown planet
- Elliptical orbit — perihelion, aphelion and the change in speed
- Period of a planet at 2.4 AU
- Period of a satellite at 400 km
- A planet from Kepler — the star’s mass, speed and energy
- Radius of the geostationary orbit
- Ranking the periods of four satellites
- Satellites and circular orbits
- Estimating the radius of the geostationary orbit
- Estimating the mass of the Sun
- Estimating the mass of the Galaxy
- Earth-Mars Hohmann transfer
- True or false on energy and orbits
- True or false on gravitation