AST 301 — Unit Five Outline |
| Unit Five: Gravity and Motion: Weighing and Measuring the Stars
(1) Mass
(2) Velocity vs. Acceleration
(3) Inertia
(4) Newton's Laws of Motion
(5) Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration
(6) Gravitation (a) Acceleration at Earth's surface measured by Galileo: "g" (b) Newton and the Moon (c) The Universal Law of Gravity (i) "inverse square law" (ii) mass dependence? (iii) relation of force law to "g"
(7) Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
(8) Mutual Orbits and Center of Mass
(9) Generalized Kepler's Third Law
(10) Angular Momentum Conservation
(11) Binary Stars
(12) Masses of Stars Measured from Binary Orbits
(13) Sizes of Stars Measured from Binary Eclipses |
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