Concept — Closed trajectories of bodies subject to the gravitational force.
Present in chapters
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Linked atoms
29 linked atoms.
08 Universal gravitation
- Altitude of the geostationary orbit
- Weightlessness on the ISS
- ISS astronaut and weightlessness
- Classification of orbits
- Comet at perihelion and aphelion
- Derivation of escape velocity
- Binding energy of a satellite
- Worked example: satellite, aphelion and perihelion
- r³
- Escaping the Solar System
- ISS and weightlessness (free fall)
- The apple and the Moon
- Kepler’s laws
- Mass of an unknown planet
- Maximum and minimum distance from the central body
- Circular orbit and centripetal force
- Elliptical orbit: perihelion, aphelion and the change in speed
- Why the Moon does not fall
- Period of a planet at 2.4 AU
- Period of a satellite at 400 km
- Radius of the geostationary orbit
- Ranking the periods of four satellites
- Ranking orbital speeds
- Satellites and circular orbits
- Estimating the radius of the geostationary orbit
- Earth-Mars Hohmann transfer
- Speed of a comet at perihelion
- True or false on energy and orbits
- True or false on gravitation