ASTR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tidal Locking, Orbital Period, Hyperbola

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Acceleration: rate of change of velocity (m/s2) On earth, g 10m/s2: speed increases 10 m/s with each second of falling. Galileo showed that g is the same for all objects, regardless of their mass. All falling objects accelerate at the same rate (not counting the friction of air resistance). A net force changes momentum of a spinning or orbiting object known as angular momentum. Mass - a measure of the amount of matter in an object. Weight - the force that a scale exerts upon an object. Weightlessness is due to a constant state of free-fall. Angular momentum: describes objects that are spinning or moving in circles. A special description of the force, a torque, is needed to change an object"s angular momentum. Realized the same physical laws that operate on earth also operate in the heavens. Much more; experiments with light, first reflecting. Objects continue at constant velocity because of conservation of momentum.

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