Question

What is one of Kepler's laws of planetary motion?

Answer 1

The Kepler laws of planetary motion are:

1) The planets revolve around the Sun following elliptical orbits, in which the Sun occupies one of the two focii

2) A line segment connecting the Sun with the center of each planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time --> this means that the speed of the planet changes according to its distance from the Sun: the closer to the Sun, the faster the planet

3) The square of the orbital period of the planets is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of the orbit. In formula

$\frac{T^2}{r^3} = const.$

and the constant in the equation has the same value for every planet orbiting around the Sun.