Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Law of Universal Gravitation

HEY!

for those who weren't in the class.. here's what we did. (''.)

STUDY GUIDE

8.1

Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion
  • predict
  • Earth
  • sun
  • 3
  • ellipses
  • sun
  • areas
  • fastest
  • slowest
  • periods
  • cubes
  • sun
  • (TA/TB)^2 = (RA/RB)^3
  • radius
  • period
  • radius
Universal Gravitation
  • inversely
  • square
  • FG= GM1M2/ d^2
  • force
  • d
  • constant
  • doubled
  • halved
  • 1/4
Newton's Use of His Law of Universal Gravitation
  • 2nd
  • Kepler's
Weighing Earth
  • Henry Cavindish
  • Attraction
  • Universal Gravitation
  • 6.7x10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2

8.2

Motion of Planets and Satellites
  • parabolic
  • vertical
  • horizontal
  • horizontal
  • Earth
  • orbit
  • Uniform Circular Motion
Weight and Weightlessness
  • acceleration
  • inverse
  • 2nd
  • decreases
  • freefall
  • upward
  • weightless
The Gravitational Field
  • gravitational field
  • gravity
  • inversely
  • square
Einstein's Theory of Gravity
  • force
  • space
  • curved
  • accelerated
  • relativity
  • sun
  • black hole
  • mass

8.1 page 17
  1. true
  2. true
  3. false, mathematical
  4. true
  5. false, sun
  6. false, area
  7. false, ratio
  8. false, first and second only
  9. they are equal
  10. point 1
  11. period and radius of another moon
  12. c.
  13. a.
  14. d.
  15. b.
  16. 2F
  17. 2F
  18. 4F
  19. 1/4F
  20. 4F

We also need to answer pags 19&26!

-patrickd.


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