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Kepler's Laws
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Explore all the possible laws of gravity - that is, all the universes the simulation will let you build (click on My Law to set the law of gravity by hand).

  1. What types of motion do you observe?
  2. Which of them give rise to planetary motion that obeys Kepler's Second Law? (What feature of the simulation helps you answer this question?)
  3. Which of them give rise to planetary motion that obeys Kepler's First Law?
  4. How could you tell whether Kepler's Third Law was being obeyed?
  5. What do you think is the law of gravity in our universe?

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