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[SOLVED] Why doesn't the Moon fall onto the Earth?
- 2011-04-24 05:29:14
- Adir Peretz
- 181392 View
- 71 Score
- 9 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion earth moon
15 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why do we say that the Earth moves around the Sun?
- 2011-06-09 05:04:32
- HappyDeveloper
- 16379 View
- 53 Score
- 15 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion solar-system inertial-frames
2 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why are our planets in the solar system all on the same disc/plane/layer?
- 2011-08-25 16:00:01
- Stephan Schielke
- 4386 View
- 49 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: gravity angular-momentum orbital-motion solar-system
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why do all the planets of the solar system orbit in roughly the same 2D plane?
- 2011-04-12 12:41:12
- becko
- 2828 View
- 19 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-gravity angular-momentum conservation-laws orbital-motion solar-system
6 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why don't planets have Circular orbits?
- 2013-07-04 11:57:17
- aravind ramesh
- 87103 View
- 36 Score
- 6 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion planets
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Are tidal power plants slowing down Earth's rotation?
- 2011-03-05 18:36:31
- daniel.sedlacek
- 7804 View
- 24 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: orbital-motion renewable-energy tidal-effect
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Radial fall in a Newtonian gravitational field
- 2012-01-11 20:14:45
- Simon S
- 2203 View
- 6 Score
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- Tags: newtonian-gravity planets orbital-motion free-fall
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Kepler problem in time: how do two gravitationally attracted particles move?
- 2012-05-17 19:09:31
- MaiaVictor
- 2496 View
- 7 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion conservation-laws inertial-frames
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Where does the extra kinetic energy come from in a gravitational slingshot?
- 2014-09-08 01:27:06
- Cory Baumer
- 12196 View
- 78 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity energy-conservation orbital-motion space-travel
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What did general relativity clarify about Mercury?
- 2011-06-14 02:20:03
- Carson Myers
- 80121 View
- 46 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: general-relativity orbital-motion solar-system celestial-mechanics precession
6 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What symmetry causes the Runge-Lenz vector to be conserved?
- 2011-12-10 03:05:00
- Dan
- 11821 View
- 47 Score
- 6 Answer
- Tags: classical-mechanics orbital-motion noethers-theorem laplace-runge-lenz-vector
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] How does Newtonian mechanics explain why orbiting objects do not fall to the object they are orbiting?
- 2011-02-25 20:44:05
- YWE
- 5362 View
- 11 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity angular-momentum orbital-motion conservation-laws
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What are common methods for calculating the time dependency of elliptical orbit?
- 2013-06-27 18:18:10
- fibonatic
- 1092 View
- 16 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-gravity orbital-motion
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Significance of the second focus in elliptical orbits
- 2011-02-07 01:19:33
- jimjim
- 4161 View
- 21 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion solar-system
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Where does tidal energy come from?
- 2013-09-17 07:41:39
- QuadrupleA
- 7124 View
- 12 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-gravity energy-conservation orbital-motion solar-system tidal-effect
9 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why are orbits elliptical?
- 2011-06-02 14:14:11
- AIB
- 26409 View
- 24 Score
- 9 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics planets newtonian-gravity orbital-motion
5 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why doesn't dark matter affect planetary motion?
- 2014-04-10 17:16:02
- user44330
- 5493 View
- 31 Score
- 5 Answer
- Tags: orbital-motion solar-system dark-matter
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[SOLVED] What is the simplest way to prove that Earth orbits the Sun?
- 2011-06-24 01:13:49
- tQuarella
- 23617 View
- 16 Score
- 7 Answer
- Tags: orbital-motion reference-frames education solar-system
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What causes matter to initially rotate/spin/orbit?
- 2013-06-20 16:43:16
- Tally Heulett
- 2835 View
- 6 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-gravity angular-momentum orbital-motion celestial-mechanics
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[SOLVED] How do you calculate the anomalous precession of Mercury?
- 2010-11-15 05:33:53
- David Z
- 8122 View
- 29 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: general-relativity orbital-motion solar-system precession
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[SOLVED] Derivation of Kepler's laws
- 2014-05-14 12:40:34
- BowPark
- 12038 View
- 14 Score
- 5 Answer
- Tags: homework-and-exercises newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion
2 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] How will the super massive black hole affect our galaxy?
- 2012-03-24 14:30:39
- n0pe
- 965 View
- 11 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: gravity black-holes orbital-motion galaxies
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Is Earth's orbit altered by recoil from take-off/launch/recovery of aero/space vehicles?
- 2012-09-28 08:07:00
- Everyone
- 1651 View
- 4 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: inertia orbital-motion
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[SOLVED] Uniform Circular Motion
- 2012-09-25 13:15:52
- Jiew Meng
- 7788 View
- 2 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: kinematics orbital-motion
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[SOLVED] Using 2D position, velocity, and mass to determine the parametric position equations for an orbiting body
- 2014-02-13 22:25:48
- Conner Ruhl
- 1374 View
- 6 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: homework-and-exercises gravity newtonian-gravity orbital-motion simulations
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[SOLVED] Why is the center-of-mass of 2 bodies at the focus of their elliptical orbits?
- 2012-06-11 12:06:34
- Omer
- 3030 View
- 4 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Might a planet perform figure-8 orbits around two stars?
- 2012-07-03 15:29:01
- dotancohen
- 16081 View
- 33 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity orbital-motion binary-stars three-body-problem
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[SOLVED] Why does reduced mass help when talking about two body problems?
- 2015-01-13 22:06:31
- RobChem
- 5170 View
- 7 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics mass orbital-motion
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[SOLVED] Gravity on the International Space Station - General Relativity perspective
- 2013-12-19 09:39:12
- Boluc Papuccuoglu
- 1828 View
- 4 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: general-relativity time orbital-motion
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Are planets actually moving in elliptical orbits around the Sun or do they move in circular orbits around their center of mass?
- 2017-04-03 07:00:20
- Archimedesprinciple
- 5635 View
- 26 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: newtonian-mechanics newtonian-gravity reference-frames orbital-motion inertial-frames
