Question

Kepler and Newton studied the movement of planets. Kepler studied the speed of the planets while Newton studied the forces that kept the planets in place. Which of these statements best explains why the two scientists proposed different theories about the planets

Answer 1

Answer:They had different goals

Explanation:

Answer 2

Kepler did not study the speed of the planets, rather, he studied how the planets move in the solar system. He proposed three laws. As a summary, he described that the planets move around the sun in the shape of an ellipse (orbit), and the Sun being one of the foci. Then, he proposed the period for the planet to complete one revolution around the Sun. 

On the other hand, Newton studied the forces acting on the planet (or any object in space) that explain how the planets move around the solar system as described by Kepler. Also, Kepler's observations only apply to planets and not the moons or satellites. Thus, Kepler only made laws from observations, while Newton based it from underlying principles that led him to mathematical equations such as the law of universal gravitation.