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What did Kepler prove?


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Kepler's law

  1. He was the first to describe the planetary motion correctly.

Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

  1. First law -

    All the planets revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits with the sun as one of the foci.
  2. Second Law-

    The radius vector that runs from the sun to the planet sweeps out the same amount of area in the same amount of time.
  3. Third Law - The cube of a planet's semi-major axis is directly proportional to the square of its time period of revolution around the sun in an elliptical orbit.
    Mathematical expression for Kepler's third law.
    T2a3
    Where, a represents the planet's semi-major axis .
    T represents time period of revolution around the sun.

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