AST 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ellipse, Semi-Major And Semi-Minor Axes, Angular Momentum

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: AST 101
• Professor: Freeman

Document Summary

In this unit, we studied: the history of how we arrived at the modern picture of the solar system the details of that picture (kepler and newton"s laws) Then i"ll provide for you some advice on how to study. Before i do that, though, you should know that while i am very busy in the next few days, i will try to make time for questions about astronomy itself. If there is something you don"t understand related to course content, ask me (in the help sessions or by email), and i"ll answer as soon as i can. We studied a bunch of history, showing how we arrived at the modern picture of the solar. Thursday: law of gravity: allows calculation of the gravitational force between any two objects. In combination: establishes a mathematical description of why kepler"s laws are true in terms of more fundamental physics. Many of the physics ideas appear in the historical outline as well.