- Do you understand the process which led to the
establishment of the law of universal gravitation and its relation to
Kepler's empirical laws?
- Can you explain the importance of the law of
gravitation for understanding the movements of the astronomical objects
in the solar system, of artificial satellites and of the tides?
- Do you understand the meaning of the concepts of
field intensity and potential gravitational energy?
- Do you understand how local phenomena such as the
rotation of the Earth can alter our perception of gravity?
- Can you make predictions about the values of field
intensity, the orbital data of satellites or energy, in simple cases of
gravitational phenomena?
You can check your knowledge by answering the following
questions:
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