Understanding Kepler's Third Law Through Interactive Lecture Demonstrations

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21546609l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #466.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.507

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Kepler's Third Law is fundamental to understanding not only the orbital motion of planets and moons in our own solar system, but also how astronomers determine masses of stars, black holes, extrasolar planets, and galaxies. However, understanding planetary orbits and Kepler's 3rd law (in its general form) relies upon concepts from Newton's Laws of Motion, Newton's Law of Gravity, projectile motion, and centripetal acceleration. Drawing upon the work of the Activity Based Physics Group, I have put together a collection of interactive lecture demonstrations, essentially a "mini course" in physics, designed to give students a conceptual understanding of these various topics in mechanics.

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