1. Ch6: Gravitational Fields

2. 6.1 – Gravitational Fields

5. 6.2 – Orbits & Keplers Laws

6. Models of the Solar System
Geocentric
The theory which stated that the Earth was the center of the solar system, believed to be an accurate description of the solar system until the17th century.
Heliocentric
The true model of the solar system in which the
Sun is the center around which the planets orbit.

11. Satellite Orbital Mechanics – Kepler’s Laws

13. 6.3 - Gravitational Potential Energy

14. Expression for gravitational potential energy of a system of any two masses a finite distance apart
For example: it gives the gravitational potential energy between two masses, such as a Earth-satellite system

16. Classwork & Homework