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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion
published by the Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee
This site presents Kepler's three laws with diagrams of orbits and a sample calculation illustrating the relation between the period and radius.  An interactive applet showing a planet's orbit is included.  The user is able to control the size of the orbit, the mass of the planet, and the eccentricity of the orbit.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html
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Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Kepler's Laws
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Upper Undergraduate
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Access Rights: Free access
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Keywords: ellipse, elliptical, orbit, period, planet
Record Creator: Metadata instance created December 19, 2007 by Ann Deml
Record Updated: Jul 09, 2009 by Lyle Barbato
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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion (Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee), WWW Document, (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html).
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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion (Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee), <http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html>.
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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion. (n.d.). Retrieved May 19, 2013, from Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html
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Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee. Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion. Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html (accessed 19 May 2013).
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Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion. Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee. 19 May 2013 <http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html>.
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