Astronomy 210
Lecture 6, Sept 3
Fall 2010
Lecture Notes:
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Tycho Brahe
nova stella
discovery;
present
view (X-ray vision)
precision astrometry
Johannes Kepler &
Kepler's Laws
Orbits are ellipses
Equal areas in equal times (
animation
, another
animation
)
P
2
=
a
3
solar system orbit viewer
inner solar system objects in real time
Galileo Galilei
: Astronomer
Telescope
used for astronomy
Galileo
reporting
to the funding agency
Observations
Moons of Jupiter
(
animation
)
Venus phases:
Ptolemaic
vs
Copernican
predictions
observed phases
Revolution I
paradigm shift
Galileo Galilei
: Physicist
Free body motion
Free fall ("
Tower of Pisa
" experiment)
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
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