Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Kepler’s second law of planetary motion


“A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time” (Meaning that each triangle seen there has equal area.)

The black dot represents a planet, the point where the black lines intersect represent the sun.
The green arrow represents the planet’s velocity,
The purple arrows represents the force on the planet.
Know more:
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/circmot/ksl.cfm
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Skepl2nd.htm

Animation credit: Antonio González Fernández/ University of Seville (Spain)

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