Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Chapter 3 Quiz


  1.  If     , what is the value of   ? Remember 
  2. State Kepler's Second Law
  3. What is perihelion?
  4. What is aphelion?
  5. If a new planet is found with an aphelion twice as big as the perihelion, what is the velocity ratio between those points?
  6. State Kepler's First Law
  7. Define an ellipse
  8. Which country was Tycho Brahe from?
  9. Who used Tycho Brahe's, data and found the laws of planetary motion?
  10. Who saw Jupiter's satellites with a telescope for the first time?

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