Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws

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written by Michael Fowler and Heather Welch

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This simulation illustrates Kepler's Second Law, that orbits sweep out equal areas during equal intervals of time, for any part of the orbit. The user can choose from three buttons between circular or increasingly elliptical orbits to observe that the law holds in all cases.

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Fundamentals = Kepler's Laws Classical Mechanics - Gravity = Kepler's Laws	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners	- application/flash	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2003 Michael Fowler
Keywords:: Kepler's Law, Orbits, Planetary Motion
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created June 19, 2008 by Christopher Allen
Record Updated:: April 18, 2009 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: June 25, 2007

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<a href="http://www.compadre.org/astronomy/items/detail.cfm?ID=7470">Fowler, Michael, and Heather Welch. Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws. June 25, 2007.</a>

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M. Fowler and H. Welch, Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws (2003), WWW Document, (http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/morekep.html).

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Fowler, M., & Welch, H. (2007, June 25). Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws. Retrieved June 19, 2013, from http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/morekep.html

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Fowler, Michael, and Heather Welch. Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws. June 25, 2007. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/morekep.html (accessed 19 June 2013).

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Fowler, Michael, and Heather Welch. Physics Flashlets: Kepler's Laws. 2003. 25 June 2007. 19 June 2013 <http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/morekep.html>.

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