Gravitation and Kepler Flashcards
Describes the amount of resistance an object has to any application of force
Inertial mass
The region around the Earth in which objects experience a force due to Earth’s gravity
Gravitation field
Suggests that objects attract other objects with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
Who was the first astronomer to propose that the Sun is the center of the solar system
Nicholas Copernicus
Who believed that all planets except Earth orbit the Sun
Tycho Brahe
Who used huge instruments he built himself to record the exact positions of the planets and stars
Tycho Brahe
Who used 30 years worth of observations made by other scientist and concluded that the planets orbit the Sun
Kepler
Who proposed that the force exerted on a planet by the Sun is inversely proportional to the distance between centers of the planet and the Sun
Newton
Who discovered that the shape of a Planet’s prbit is an ellipse
Copernicus
Who was the first to theorize that the force that makes objects fall to Earth is the same force that the Sun exerts on the planets
Newton
Who used geometry and mathematics to discover his three laws of planetary motion
Kepler
Which one of Kepler’s law: Relates the motion of more than one object about a single body
Third
Which one of Kepler’s law: Describes the shape of the planets’ orbit
First
Which one of Kepler’s law: States that the SUn is located at one focus of a planet’s orbit
First
Which one of Kepler’s law: States that an imaginary line drawn from a planet to the Sun will sweep out equal areas in equal time intervals
Second
Action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong
Penitence
Period after the Black Death where European culture, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth”
Renaissance
Where the Sun is the center of the Solar System
Heliocentricity