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Title: Kepler's Third Law
Book Description: The primary purpose of this laboratory is both to investigate a venerable phenomenon, and partly to retrace the steps that immediately preceded and inspired the birth of the Calculus. The data of this phenomenon are the motions of planets, comets, asteroids, and other objects in the day and night sky.
We will generate our own data by launching solar probes around the Sun, and make an hypothesis about it based on a Log-Log plot. Then we check the hypothesis with information that we have about the planets. If the hypothesis (Kepler's Third Law) describes the inner planets well, we will use it to predict some facts about the outer planets. We thus see the application of one of the most successful scientific models of all time in its descriptive and its predictive capacity.
Authors: James White and Samad Mortabit
Contained
in Calculus 1 Course.
Suggested Use: Instructions are under the (?) button. The first page of this lab is a Report page and contains the lab assignment with space for students to fill in answers. This has been saved as Notes for that page. To open the report, return to the first page by pressing the Black Rectangle, then select Customize, Notes for this page. To close the notes before leaving the first page, select: Customize, Close Notes
Topics: log plots, gravity, graphing, conic sections, linear regression
Number of Pages: 5
Animation: Yes
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Level: 