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Calculate Solar Planetary Constant By Reza Mihankhah Professor of Physics Henderson Community College Henderson, KY Project Overview Students will use real time data from ten satellites to (a) Calculate solar system planetary value for each satellite (b) Calculate the mass of the earth using Kepler’s third law (c) Obtain the mass of the earth from an internet site (d) Calculate the percent error between the two values  Student Learning Objectives After completing this RWLO, the students will be able to: Apply Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion Collect radius and mass of the earth from a web site Collect altitude and period for each satellite from a web site Calculate planetary constant for each satellite, the mass of the earth, and percent error  Procedure Time: Approximately 75 minutes Materials: Computer, online access, printer, calculator, pencil and paper Prerequisites: Students should have knowledge of Kepler’s third Law. Implementation: This RWLO can be used as a laboratory project or as a homework assignment. Students can work individually or in groups of up to two. 1. Prior to class, the instructor should become familiar with the J-Track 3D and Hyper-Physics web sites. Students must be advised to turn off their pop-up blockers when using the J-Track 3D web site. 2. Introduce Kepler’s 3rd law: the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the average distance of the planet from the Sun; that is,. To simplify the derivation, we will use circular orbit for the planets. The centripetal force Fc necessary to keep the planet of mass Mp in a circular orbit is the gravitational force FG exerted on it by the sun of mass Ms. Thus, Fc = FG or (1) Where is the speed of the planet, and is the period for one revolution. Substituting for in equation (1), Solving