Orbital Issues
p2=a3 is one of three
What are Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion?
Red shift/blue shift is explained easily using sound waves, thus showing
this principal effect at play.
What is the Doppler Effect?
"Drat you I say, I am the better mathematician, let us duel with swords to prove
it so" is something this famous astronomer may have stated.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
This narrow range on the EMS is between 390nm-about 710 nm.
What is the visible light spectrum?
"Tycho made me document all his measurements, then whilst he partied and lived it
up with the royal court, it was I that put order to his madness." A possible quote from
this individual.
Who is Sophia Brahe?
The point at which a planet's orbital velocity is lowest in its orbital path
What is aphelion?
Fg = G x (M1xM2)/r2
What is Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation?
"You fools, I did not discover gravity! All souls know that apples will fall to
the ground. Whilst this is well known, I did apply my new branch of mathematics
to the falling objects, thus it now makes perfectly good reasoning to the reasonable
soul." is something this famous scientists may have stated.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Reflection, absorption, transmission, and emission.
What are the four categories of light's interaction with matter?
Definitions do not get any easier than this one: 3.26 light years
What is one parsec?
Conversely, a planet's orbital velocity is highest at this point in its orbit.
What is perihelion?
must go down.
What is the Conservation of Angular Momentum Law?
One may have overheard this scientist stating, "Tycho, you hardheaded mule of a soul,
you misbegotten, nose-less nerf herder, I must have your data to come closer to
God, and it is no concern of yours why I ordered more arsenic from the apothecary".
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Isaac Newton's corpuscles...or particles of light.
What are photons?
Thomas Young's dual slit experiment supported that light behaved like this, not a
silly corpuscle, as Newton suggested.
What is a wave?
heavenly objects must orbit in perfect circles.
Who is Plato?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change forms.
What is the conservation of energy law?
"Drat this geocentricism tomfoolery, I shall place the Sun at the center and start a
revolution..." is something this early 16th century renaissance man may have stated.
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
Using this band of the EMS, Marie Currie discovered this technology to "see"
inside the human body.
What are X-rays?
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Sunspots, Phases of Venus, and craters on the Moon.
What are discoveries made by Galileo Galilei?
Johannes Kepler's skill in mathematics proved that all orbits are not round,
but this shape.
What are ellipses?
While technically not a law of physics or astronomy, this cycle used throughout the
history of humankind, accurately predicts solar eclipses.
What is the Saros Cycle?
"Your Holy Pope, I implore upon you to take note, it is I who discovered four new
satellites circling Jupiter, hence surely one must now know the truth of Earth's motion."
May have been a statement made in this man's defense argument during his inquisition.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Some of these EMS waves can be kilometers in length, and we can "see" these waves
from space with very large-arrayed telescopes.
What are radio waves?
Sunlight to Electricity, Food to mechanical, electricity to thermal, gasoline to mechanical
What are energy conversion examples?