Newton's Laws of Motion & Law of Universal Gravitation
Study Skills
100
Created a sun-centered theory of the solar system
Who is Copernicus?
100
One complete trip along an orbit
What is revolution?
100
TWO PART QUESTION:
Each planet moves around the sun in ...
Also, name which law of Motion.
What is the path the shape of an ellipse?
What is Kepler's First Law of Motion?
100
TWO PART QUESTION:
What happens if objects gain mass and the distance between them decreases?
Name Newton's Law.
What is gravity between them increases?
What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?
100
Terms in your book that are highlighted in yellow and defined in the margin.
What is vocabulary?
200
Created an earth-centered theory of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
200
The spin of a body on its axis
What is rotation?
200
TWO PART QUESTION:
The closer a planet is to the sun...
What is the faster it travels around the sun?
What is Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion?
200
Newton's First Law of Motion States
What is
An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
An object in motion will remain in motion, constant speed, same direction, unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
200
An aid to help students organize their ideas and remember important concepts.
What is graphic organizer?
300
Showed that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun.
Who is Kepler?
300
The path of a body that travels around another body in space
What is orbit?
300
TWO PART QUESTION:
Planets that are more distant from the sun take ______ to orbit than planets that are closer to the sun.
What is longer?
What is Kepler's Third Law of Motion?
300
Newton's second law of motion states that the acceleration of an object depends on...
What is the mass of the object and the amount of force applied.
300
TWO PART QUESTION (first, what it is called, then where to find it):
Where I should look to find unit, chapter and section headings and page numbers.
What is Table of Contents?
Where is beginning of textbook?
400
Showed that gravity keeps planets and moons in orbit.
Who is Newton?
400
The amount of time it takes a body to complete a trip along an orbit.
What is period of revolution? (or what is period?)
400
TWO PART QUESTION:
The period of a planet's revolution can be used to calculate the planet's...
Name the Law of Planetary Motion...
What is the distance from the sun?
What is Kepler's Third Law of Motion?
400
TWO PART QUESTION:
This law explains that a runner is able to move forward because of the _________ and __________ force that the ground exerts on the runner's foot after each step.
What is equal and opposite?
What is Newton's third law of motion?
400
TWO PART QUESTION (WHAT and WHERE):
Where I should look to search the textbook for a very specific topic.
What is the Index?
Where is the back of the textbook?
500
Was one of the first astronomers to use a telescope to observe objects in space.
Who is Galileo?
500
Used to describe the average distance between a planet and the sun.
What is semimajor axis?
500
Briefly state Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
What is Kepler's first law of motion states that orbits are elliptical; the second law states that planets move faster when they are closer to the sun than they move when they are farther from the sun; the third law explains the relationship between a planet's period of revolution and its semimajor axis.