Kepler’s third law of planetary motion

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celestial mechanics

  • vector mathematics
    In mechanics: Circular orbits

    …case (for circular orbits) of Kepler’s third law, which is discussed in the article celestial mechanics. Using the fact that v = 2πr/T, where 2πr is the circumference of the orbit and T is the time to make a complete orbit (i.e., T is one year in the life of…

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Kepler’s laws of planetary motion

  • Kepler's first law
    In Kepler’s laws of planetary motion

    (3) The squares of the sidereal periods (of revolution) of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun. Knowledge of these laws, especially the second (the law of areas), proved crucial to Sir Isaac Newton in 1684–85, when…

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