Johannes Kepler
Astronomy 210
Lecture 6, Sept 3 Fall 2010 Galileo Galilei

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Tycho Brahe

Johannes Kepler & Kepler's Laws

  1. Orbits are ellipses
  2. Equal areas in equal times (animation, another animation)
  3. P2 = a3

Galileo Galilei: Astronomer

Revolution I

  • paradigm shift

Galileo Galilei: Physicist

early laboratory for gravitational physics

Lecture Archive


Brian D. Fields
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