#ellipse

In this video, I use Kepler's third law to calculate the length of Earth's elliptical orbit to be around 299,000,000 km wide and takes about 365.25 days to complete 1 full revolution. The equation for

3Speak - YouTube - Telegram - Summary - Notes - Sections playlist - Vector Functions playlist - MES Links In this video, I use Kepler's third law to calculate the length of Earth's elliptical orbit to

In this video, I derive Kepler's 3rd Law of planetary motion and obtain a formula for a planet's period of orbit around the Sun in terms of the length of its major axis. Using the results of Laws 1 and

3Speak - YouTube - Telegram - Summary - Notes - Sections playlist - Vector Functions playlist - MES Links In this video, I derive Kepler's 3rd Law of planetary motion and obtain a formula for a planet's

In this video, I derive Kepler's 2nd law of planetary motion and show that the line joining the Sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. In other words, the rate of change of the area of

In this video, I derive Kepler's 1st law of planetary motion entirely from Newton's second law of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation, while making extensive use of the calculus of vector

Yesterday, poking around, I asked myself how you could generalize the ellipse for more than two focal points, and I found out that a Scottish boy had asked himself the same question back in the 1840's,