Planet's Movement Kepler's Laws Law of Universal Gravitation Miscellaneous
100
Rotation
What is the spin of a body on it's axis?
100
The orbit of a planet is an elliptical
What did Kepler's first law say?
100
A push or a pull
What is force?
100
Venus
What planet has the longest day?
200
Tilt
What is causes there to be seasons?
200
When it is closer to the sun
Where is more distance in an orbit covered?
200
GRAVITY
What is a force that is always present on earth?
200
8 years
How long did it take Kepler to discover his first 2 laws?
300
One Revolution
How do we determine when one year goes by?
300
When it is farthest from the sun
When does a planet move the slowest?
300
Inertia
Why doesn't the moon crash into the earth?
300
p^2 = a^3
What was the equation that Kepler came up with in his third law?
400
Orbit
What is the path that one body follows along another body?
400
The farther the planet is from the sun, the longer it will take to make one revolution.
How is a planet’s distance from the sun related to the amount of time that it takes for planet to make one revolution around the sun?
400
Mass increased = Force increased
Distance increased = Force decreased
What would happen to the force if the mass of two objects increased? What would happen to the force if the distance between two objects increased?
400
F = Gm1m2
d^2
What is the Universal Law of Gravitation Equation?
500
Revolution - determines years
Rotation - determines days
What causes years and days to be different on other planets compared to Earth?
500
Astronomical Unit
92-93 million
What does AU stand for? And about how many miles is one AU?
500
There would be no orbits
What would happen if there was no gravity in space?
500
6.673x10-11 N m2/kg2
What is the value of G in the law of gravitation equation?






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