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LAB: Equal Area Law
Handle: Document-13942
Owner: Fuller, Tina (User-7387, tfuller:DocuShare)DS
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:01:00 AM EDT
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:01:00 AM EDT
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  • Earth’s Motions—The Law of Orbits Name _______________
Partner ______________ Class _____ Lab ______ Date _______Problem: Is there any sort of pattern which can be identified in the motions of satellites in their orbit around their primaries? The sectors of the diagram are lettered A through L.
  • The 12 radii are numbered from 1 to 12.
  • To finally calculate the area of Sector A we will need to know the average of these two radii.
  • Calculations:
5) You need to visualize this satellite orbiting its primary with its changing radius distances and sector angles.
  • 6) On the first graph use two different colored pencils to plot the 12 radius lengths you measure...
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