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Kepler's Laws
Kepler's First Law :
The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the foci.
The given figure shows that elliptical orbit of a planet revolving around the sun. The position of the sun is indicated by S.
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Kepler's Second Law :
The line joining the planet and the sun sweeps equal area in equal intervals of a time.
AB and CD are distance covered by the planet in equal time i.e. after equal intervals of a time, the position of a planet starting from A and C are shown by B and D respectively. The straight lines AS and CS sweeps equal are in equal intervals of time i.e. area ASB and CSD are equal.
Kepler's Third Law :
The square of of its period of revolution around the sun is directly proportional to the cube of the mean distance of a planet from the sun.
Thus, if r is the average distance of the planet from the sun and T is its period of revolution then, T^2 a r^3 i.e. T^2/r^3 = constant = K
Kepler obtained these laws simply from the study of the position of planets obtained by regular observations.
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