Elliptic orbits

Duration: 0:19:00

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Educational Services: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Physical Science Committee: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Professor Albert V. Baez starts with an elliptic orbit (as of a satellite) and uses Kepler's law of areas to show that the gravitational force on the satellite obeys an inverse square relation, explaining that the derivation is almost entirely geometric in nature.

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