Keplers Law Flashcards

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Kepler’s First Law

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Planets orbits are elliptical with the sun at a focus

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Ecentricity

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A measure of how different a circle and ellipse is (1 = not a perfect circle)

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Kepler’s 2nd Law

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A line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal area in equal amounts of time

A1/t1 = A2/t2

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Keplers 3rd Law

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T^2 /r^3 constant for any object orbiting a common star

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Order of planets

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My = mercury
Very = Venus
Educated = earth
Mother = mars
Just = Jupiter
Served = Saturn
Us = Uranus
Noodles = Neptune

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Smallest planet in our solar system

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Mercury

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Largest planet

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Jupiter

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Biggest planet to smallest

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Jessica = Jupiter
Served = Saturn
Us = Uranus
Noodles = Neptune
Every = earth
Vineyard = Venus
Monday = mars
Morning = mercury

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Same size planets

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Earth and Venus

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Two planets about the same size

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Uranus and Neptune

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