Universal Gravitation

“Counselor, please advise your client that, issues

of personal safety aside, gravity is the law.”
Suddenly, through forces not yet fully understood,
Darren Belsky’s apartment became the center of a
new black hole.
Motion in the Heavens
• Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
• 1576 – Island in the North
Sea- his own personal
observatory
• The man with the golden
nose.
 Johanes Kepler
•Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion

• 1. All planets have

elliptical orbits
• 2. All planets sweep
out equal areas in
equal times
• R2/T3 is a constant
for every object in
the solar system.