Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS](OT) Mr. Science bad
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:37:09 -0400
To:        <lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:03:08 -0400, Blay Tarnoff wrote:
>=A0Bob Armstrong wrote:
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>=A0>=A0By Kepler's law . . ., if the radius of an orbit is
>=A0>=A0increased by 1.1 times , the period increases by
>=A0>=A01.1 ^ 3%2 =A0or about 1.1537 .
>
>=A0Why?

 As I said 

>=A0>=A0I have not had the product of time and interest to grok
>=A0>=A0orbital energetics , but it's clearly not as simple as
>=A0>=A0just saying the speed goes down as r ^ 2 . Obviously
>=A0>=A0Kepler found it to be =A0r % r ^ 3%2 as I had in my table
>=A0>=A0in message 19428 .

 In the lieu , I will just accept Tycho Brahe's observations
 and Kepler's curve fitting without understanding - just as
 Kepler did . Maybe in a couple of weeks I'll work my way
 up to Newton's insights .

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