Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation
This week you will read the introductory chapters listed below for this first part and you will have to solve the associated problems in loncapa. You can also start the problems from the extended set 2 pertaining to this chapter.
- Introduction to Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation
- Rotation Angle and Angular Velocity
- Centripetal Acceleration
- Centripetal Force
- Fictitious Forces and Non-inertial Frames: The Coriolis Force
- Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
- Satellites and Kepler’s Laws: An Argument for Simplicity