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Ch6: Gravitational Fields
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6.1 – Gravitational Fields
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6.2 – Orbits & Keplers Laws
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Models of the Solar System
Geocentric The theory which stated that the Earth was the center of the solar system, believed to be an accurate description of the solar system until the17th century. Heliocentric The true model of the solar system in which the Sun is the center around which the planets orbit.
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Satellite Orbital Mechanics – Kepler’s Laws
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6.3 - Gravitational Potential Energy
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Expression for gravitational potential energy of a system of any two masses a finite distance apart
For example: it gives the gravitational potential energy between two masses, such as a Earth-satellite system
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Classwork & Homework
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