What Kepler's Laws Tells us about Orbits - Rocket Science 101 Basics 15

Описание: In this video, we explain how Kepler's Laws teach us about elliptical orbits, how satellites move through their orbits, and about how the orbital period is controlled by their semi-major axis (and we learn what a semi-major axis is!)

This video is one in a series where we explain how rockets, orbits, satellites, NASA, and other things space related work. In addition, we will talk about the history of rockets and some movies and science fiction TV shows. We will post a video in the series each week.

This whole thing started out as a blog, here: https://therocketscienceblog.wordpres.... Many of the topics found in this series were discussed on the blog.

This content was created by the Center for Academic Innovation (https://ai.umich.edu/) at the University of Michigan (https://umich.edu/). The development team included:

1. Aaron Ridley - main content creation
2. Ahmed Lachheb (heavy lifter), Peter Arashiro, Parker Miles, Aaron Cecil-Xavier, Anna Anderson (animations), Anushka Raheja - content development
3. Steve Ewing (heavy lifter -   / steve-ewing-72a11481  ) and Sam Baldwin - video recording and editing
4. Jenni Patterson and Sam Sieren - project management

If you are interested in all of the videos on Rocket Science and the additional content that we have developed, it is all available at Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/specializati...)