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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.

http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Fundamentals = Celestial Mechanics Classical Mechanics - Gravity = Kepler's Laws	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory = Lesson/Lesson Plan

Appropriate Courses	Categories	Ratings
- Physical Science - Physics First - Conceptual Physics - Algebra-based Physics - AP Physics	- Activity - Laboratory - New teachers	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

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Format:: text/html
Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2004 Eleanor Kopsian
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created August 5, 2004 by Stephanie Tchatchoua
Record Updated:: March 10, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Astronomy Center

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This resource is part of 2 Physics Front Topical Units.

Topic: Astronomy
Unit Title: Astronomy Resources For the High School Classroom

In this activity students will explore orbital shapes and properties.

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Topic: Astronomy
Unit Title: Astronomy: An Historical Perspective

Understanding orbital mechanics for students.

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F. Frazier and E. Kopsian, Orbital Motion (2004), <http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html>.

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Frazier, F., & Kopsian, E. (2004). Orbital Motion. Retrieved March 17, 2025, from http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html

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Frazier, Franklin, and Eleanor Kopsian. Orbital Motion. 2004. http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html (accessed 17 March 2025).

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