Elliptic orbits

Elliptic orbits is a short film from 1959 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Professor Albert V. Baez starts with an elliptic orbit (as of a satellite) and uses Kepler's law of areas to show that the gravitational force on the satellite obeys an inverse square relation, explai...

Elliptic orbits
Release date	1959

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Summary

Professor Albert V. Baez starts with an elliptic orbit (as of a satellite) and uses Kepler's law of areas to show that the gravitational force on the satellite obeys an inverse square relation, explaining that the derivation is almost entirely geometric in nature.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:19:00) :16mm

IUL Genres

IUL Subject

Orbits.

Full Title (usually this is the same as above)

Elliptic orbits