Jacob

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Sir Isaac Newton and the Acceleration of Gravity

In A previous Topic we watched a video of Astronauts Scott and…

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Computing Potential Energy

Previous Topic we discovered that objects acquire potential energy as it relates…

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Calculation of the Effect of Machines — How to Calculate Kinetic Energy

Last time we learned kinetic energy as the energy of movement.   Today we’ll…

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Gravity and the Mass of the Sun

As a young school boy I found it hard to believe that…

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How Big is the Sun?

Last time we calculated the sun’s force of gravity acting upon Earth.   It…

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What is Earth’s Mass?

Last time we learned how Henry Cavendish used Christiaan Huygens’ work with…

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The Scale of the Solar System

Kepler's laws agree with all observed planetary motions, and by the table…

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Transit of Venus

Fig. 1   The 2004 Venus transit observed from 3 locations by the GONG collaboration Kepler's third…

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Calculating the Distance to the Sun

We’ve been paying a lot of attention to Venus and its orbital…

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Earth’s Orbital Velocity

 As Already Discussed Newton’s equation to calculate the sun’s gravitational force acting…

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