Orbital Speed, Escape Velocity & Weighing the Sun
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In this lesson
You calculate escape and low-orbit speeds for six worlds, Earth's speed around the Sun and the Sun's mass from Earth's orbit.
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Lessons in this course
- Cosmic Units: AU, Light-Years & Parsecs Locked
- Kepler's Third Law: Periods, Orbits & a Log-Log Plot Locked
- Orbital Speed, Escape Velocity & Weighing the Sun Locked
- Parallax: Distances to the Nearest Stars Locked
- Apparent vs Absolute Magnitude & the Distance Modulus Locked
- Luminosity & the Inverse-Square Law Locked
- Wien's Law: Star Temperature, Colour & Spectral Class Locked
- Hubble's Law: Fitting H₀ & the Age Scale of the Universe Locked