WHAT IS ORBITAL MOTION?
Orbital Motion is the motion of one object in
space around another object. The orbits are
governed by Johannes Kepler's Laws of orbital
Motion.
Johannes Kepler, working with data
painstakingly collected by Tycho Brahe without
the aid of a telescope, developed three laws
which described the motion of the planets
across the sky.
THE LAW OF ORBITS: ALL PLANETS MOVE IN
ELLIPTICAL ORBITS, WITH THE SUN AT ONE
FOCUS.
THE LAW OF AREAS: A LINE THAT CONNECTS A
PLANET TO THE SUN SWEEPS OUT EQUAL
AREAS IN EQUAL TIMES.
THE LAW OF PERIODS: THE SQUARE OF THE
PERIOD OF ANY PLANET IS PROPORTIONAL TO
THE CUBE OF THE SEMI-MAJOR AXIS OF ITS
ORBIT.
Write out
the steps
that your
group will
follow in
detail
here.
Create a table
to organize
your Data
Here.
After completing your Experiment you are
to create a graph showing Orbital period
VS Semi-Major Axis Length.
Be sure your Graph has the
following;
• Labeled Axis's
• Accurately graphed Data.
• A Title.
Finally, Answer each of the Conclusion
questions in a complete sentence.