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Lecture 2The Solar System
The Universal GravitationChapter 1.3 1.11
Homework: On-line quiz for Chapter 1 (due August 27th)
Outline
• What we see in the sky• The Ptolemaic system• The Copernican system, Kepler’s laws• Universal gravitation
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Constellations
• Patterns of stars seen in the sky
• There are 88 constellations
• About 50 of them were named by ancient Greeks and Romans
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Constellation of Orion
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Winter triangle
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Daily star paths
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Seasonal changes in the sky
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Annual change of the Sun altitude
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Ancient Observations
• Relations of celestial objects to weather and agriculture
• Observations of the Sun and Moon
• Observations of stars and planets
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Ptolemaic model of the Universe
Developed by Claudius Ptolemy (A.D. 100-170)
The Earth is in the center
The Sun is at the third orbit from Earth after Mercury and Venus
Epicycles are added to circular orbits of planets to explain retrograde motion
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Ptolemy (A.D. 100 170)
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Ptolemaic Epicycles
The Ptolemaic model along with a catalog of positions of 1028 stars were published in his book Almagest
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Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543)
Copernicus is said to be the founder of modern astronomy
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Kepler’s Laws
1. Planets move on elliptical orbits
2. The planet’s radius-vector sweeps out the same areas in equal times
3. The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their semi-major axes
Demonstration of Kepler's laws
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The Solar System
• Content:
Sun (the only star)
9 planets
Nearly 100 moonsAsteroids
Comets
Free-flying gas and ``dusty’’ particles
http://solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
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Planets of the Solar System
Object Diameter Dist. from Sun Dist. in A.U. Revol. Period
Earth years
Mercury 4,880 57.9 million km 0.4 0.2
Venus 12,100 108.2 0.7 0.6
Earth 12,760 149.6 (1 A.U.) 1.0 1.0
Mars 6,790 227.9 1.5 1.9
Jupiter 143,000 778.3 5.2 11.9
Saturn 120,000 1,427 9.5 29.5
Uranus 52,000 2,870 19.2 84.0
Neptune 48,400 4,497 30.1 164.8
Pluto 2,260 5,900 39.4 247.7
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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The Universal Law of Gravitation
Every mass attracts every other mass through the force called gravityThe force of attraction is directly proportional to the product of their massesThe force of attraction is inversely proportional to the distance between the objects
Fg = G x M1x M2 / d2
gravity
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The Universal Law of Gravitation
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Support of Kepler’s Laws
Newton found that Kepler’s first two laws apply not only to planets, but to any object going around another one under the force of gravity
The orbits do not have to be elliptical
They can also be parabolic or hyperbolic
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TidesTides are due to gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon
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Spring Tides
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Neap Tides
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Tidal Friction and Synchronous Rotation
The tidal bulges try to stay on the Earth – Moon lineThe Earth’s rotation tries to pull the bulges around
The tidal friction slows down the Earth’s rotationThe length of a day gets longer
It makes the Moon move further away from Earth
The Moon is in synchronous rotation with the Earth (always showing the same face)
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The Discovery of NeptuneIn 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered telescopically from Britain by William Herschel.
In 1845, a Cambridge mathematician, John Couch Adams, based on the law of gravitation, predicted the existence of an unseen planet, to account for the fact that Uranus was being pulled slightly out of position in its orbit.He sent the calculations to test to England’s Royal Astronomer, who set them aside.
Shortly after that, a French mathematician, Urbain Leverrier, published a similar prediction and contacted astronomers at Berlin Observatory, who found the new planet on the night of 23 September 1846.
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Urbain Leverrier (18111877)
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Astronomy and Astrology
Astronomy is a science
It describes the real world, sets new problems and solves them, using methods of itself and other sciences (such as physics and mathematics)
Astrology is interpreting apparent positions of the Sun, planets, and stars to predict human life.
It does not set and solve any problem
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Summary• The Earth is not the center of the universe but instead is a
planet orbiting a rather ordinary star in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Newton’s discoveries showed that the same physical laws we observe on Earth apply throughout the Universe.
• Celestial bodies in the gravitational field of each other move according to Kepler’s laws.