Kepler's Laws HW

First, the lab is due in TWO classes - next Wednesday.  One lab will be submitted per group.

Before next class, please play with this applet:

http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/tomley/kepler.html


And if you'd like a review on retrograde motion and epicycles (which Kepler's laws made obsolete), play with this:

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.swf

Or this:

http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/geocentric.html


Fun to play with:

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/kepler6.htm