keplers-laws

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PhET: My Solar System
phet.colorado.edu

PhET: My Solar System

Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other.

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PhET: Kepler's Laws
phet.colorado.edu

PhET: Kepler's Laws

Interact with the variables to discover how planetary objects moves in elliptical orbits, and the other characteristics of these orbits described by the three Kepler’s Laws. Connect Astronomy with Math, by experimenting with ellipses, areas, and graphs.

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