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written by Franklin Frazier and Eleanor Kopsian
This is an activity intended to help students understand orbital motion and Kepler's Laws through a comparison of a circle and an ellipse and the application of Kepler's Law of Elliptical Orbits.
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Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Celestial Mechanics
Classical Mechanics
- Gravity
= Kepler's Laws
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Middle School
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Laboratory
= Lesson/Lesson Plan
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© 2004 Eleanor Kopsian
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Metadata instance created August 5, 2004 by Stephanie Tchatchoua
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March 10, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
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F. Frazier and E. Kopsian, (2004), WWW Document, (http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html).
AJP/PRST-PER
F. Frazier and E. Kopsian, Orbital Motion (2004), <http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html>.
APA Format
Frazier, F., & Kopsian, E. (2004). Orbital Motion. Retrieved December 5, 2024, from http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html
Chicago Format
Frazier, Franklin, and Eleanor Kopsian. Orbital Motion. 2004. http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html (accessed 5 December 2024).
MLA Format
Frazier, Franklin, and Eleanor Kopsian. Orbital Motion. 2004. 5 Dec. 2024 <http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html>.
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@misc{ Author = "Franklin Frazier and Eleanor Kopsian", Title = {Orbital Motion}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {5 December 2024}, Year = {2004} }
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%A Franklin Frazier %A Eleanor Kopsian %T Orbital Motion %D 2004 %U http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html %O text/html

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%0 Electronic Source %A Frazier, Franklin %A Kopsian, Eleanor %D 2004 %T Orbital Motion %V 2024 %N 5 December 2024 %9 text/html %U http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html


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