Chapter 13 Outline Gravitation Newton’s law of gravitation Weight Gravitational potential energy Circular orbits Kepler’s laws Black holes
Gravitation
Gravitational Force Acts on both bodies with equal magnitude. When you jump off a diving board, Earth also accelerates towards you, but your mass is 23 orders of magnitude smaller, so this is negligible. Spherically symmetric masses look like points from the outside. Replace sphere with a single point mass at the center.
Weight
Mass of the Earth
Density of the Earth
Exam #3 Results Average 10.4 Standard deviation 3.1
Gravitational Potential Energy
Gravitational Potential Energy on Earth
Escape Velocity
Motion of Satellites
Circular Orbits
Circular Orbital Speed
Total Energy in Circular Orbit
Kepler’s Laws
Kepler’s First Law
Kepler’s Second Law
Kepler’s Third Law
Escape Velocity Revisited
Black Holes
Schwartzschild Radius
What if the Sun collapsed into a black hole?