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Whats kepler's 3rd law ( farmatic law)

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  1. Three laws, determined by Johannes Kepler, that describe the motions of planets in their orbits: the orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at a common focus; the line joining a planet and the sun sweeps over equal areas during equal intervals of time; the squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.  


  2. Johannes  Kepler (1571 - 1630), by trial and error over a period of many years, established three laws of planetary motion that fitted the enormous amount of data obtained by Tycho Brahe  (1546 - 1601) through painstaking and accurate observation.

    Kepler's third law of planetary motion is: -

    The squares of the periods of revolution of the planets are proportional to the cubes to the cubes of the major axis of the ellipses.

    Or

    T² œ a³

    Where 'T' is the planets orbital period and 'a' is the semi-major axis of the elliptical orbit.

    Furthermore, it may be shown that in terms of Newton's law of gravitational attraction, Kepler's third law may be written down as: -

    T² =4π²a³

    ......_____

    .....G(M + m)

    Where 'M' is the mass of the focus object, the central star, and 'm' is the mass of the orbiting planet.

  3. Kepler's Third Law is that The square of the year of an orbit is related to half the major axis of the orbit cubed.

  4. Period proportional to (orbit semimajor axis)^3/2; or roughly to (radius)^3/2. A consequence, as Newton showed, of the inverse square law for gravity. See Wikepedia.

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