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Gravitation: Fields, Orbits & Kepler's Laws
Unit 3 AOS1 — How do physicists explain motion in two dimensions?
What this note covers
- 1. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
- 2. Gravitational Field Strength g = GM/r2
- 3. Satellites and Circular Orbits
- 4. Kepler's Third Law: T2 ∝ r3
- 5. Geostationary Orbits
- 6. Gravitational Potential Energy
- 7. Apparent Weight and Weightlessness
7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 7 common mistakes
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