Kepler's Law

Today we did not have class. We had an online assignment where we had a simulation of Kepler’s Laws which we began talking about last class. This simulation was a neat way to show people who are visual learners what the laws mean. It also helps people connect the law and the visual together. It shows what the law does instead of just want it means. It helps a person understand better. But it is a little hard to understand even when you have the text book with you and directions up above the simulation. This is a hard concept to grasp and hopefully we will go over more of it in class.
Kepler’s second law states that, The line from the sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas of space in the equal time intervals. The simulation demonstrates this. When you put the a=3 you could see how that the line from the sun to the two planets took the same amount of time and space every time it swept. It also shows in red where the planet swept. This is the same distance every time and it picks back up At the same time every time. The smaller planet has the same number of sweeps as the big planet but it goes around its orbit more times then the bigger planet and goes through the sweeps more times than the bigger planet.