Angular Momentum Activity
Example of a calculus problem featured in the activities below
AAPT
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| Heliophysics Big Ideas |
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| NGSS |
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| Heliophysics Topics |
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| Material Cost per Learner | Free |
| Language | English |
This guided inquiry helps students to describe angular momentum, tangential velocity, and acceleration for orbiting objects. This activity helps students to understand angular momentum and its conservation as it applies to orbiting celestial objects, based on Johannes Kepler's 2nd Law of Orbital Mechanics.
It is appropriate for university calculus-based introductory physics or for an upper-division mechanics course.