Question

Keplers Laws

Answer 1

What's the question?

Answer 2

Intuitive....insight....
\[T^2=Cr^3\]

Answer 3

Oh yeah, Proportions.....

Answer 4

uh oh, math processing error

Answer 5

what happened? LOL

Answer 6

oh there we go, intuitive insight? Not sure what to say about it, I've just about never used that equation.... rather self explanatory, no?

Answer 7

oh semi major axis....

Answer 8

what is the relationship b/w Kepler's and the semi major axis?

Answer 9

ok found it....sorry LOL

Answer 10

lol so... any more misgivings?

Answer 11

question. why is this true?

Answer 12

you mislabeled the semi-major axis as well, I think

Answer 13

is this their setup?

Answer 14

right, so in your problem, the sun is here

Answer 15

the closes they are is 0.1AU, so we have

Answer 16

oh yeah....that makes more sense

Answer 17

the whole distance across is 2 times the semi-major axis, or 2R, and you can see that the farthest the plant can be is on the other side of the ellipse