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Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion

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General Physics Conceptual Physics (10th) by Hewitt N/A N/A 11/7/2009 at 2:00:00 PM
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State and explain the implications of each of Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
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posted by esther_jyothi on 11/6/2009 11:57:26 PM  |  status: Live
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  • Kepler's first law:
  •            The orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus.
  • Second law     :
  •          The line segment joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals.
  • Third law      :
  •           The square of the period of revolution of a planet about the sun is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet’s elliptical orbit
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