Assignment 28

The study of Universal Gravitation and orbital dynamics continues.  The text addresses these topics as well.

The Introductory Problem Set assignment and the qa both address gravitational forces and the motion of a satellite in circular orbit about a planet.

Class Notes include the following topics:

• the orbital simulation program
• radian measure
• proof that acceleration of object in circular path at constant velocity is centripetal and equal to v^2 / r
• escape velocity
• equivalence of the flux picture of gravitational fields and Newton's formulation

The text topic is Gravitation and Orbital Dynamics.