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Solar System Organization
Chapters 3 & 4
Forming the Solar System
• Accretion- the process of building something up gradually by the gathering together of small pieces
• Explain how this would build a star?• The solar system?
Gravity
• Newton’s Law of Gravity- stated that every object in the universe attracts every other object
• The strength of the force of gravity between the two objects depends on two factors: the masses of the objects and the distance between them.
What Determines Gravity?
• Earth revolves around the sun in a nearly circular orbit
• Orbit- path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
• What keeps the Earth and the moon from flying off into space?
Inertia
• Inertia- the tendency of an object to resist change in motion
• You feel the effects of inertia everyday when riding in a car and it brakes suddenly. The car stops, but you fly forward (that’s why they invented the seatbelt!)
• The more mass an object has, the more inertia• The more mass and inertia the harder it is for
the object to stop (give an example)
Inertia• Isaac Newton created a law about inertia
• Newton’s First Law of Motion- that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with a constant speed and direction unless acted upon by a force
Models of the Solar System 4.6
• There are two models of the solar system
What is the Geocentric Model?
• Geocentric- Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars
• Ptolemy took the geocentric model a little further by saying that moved in circles carried along by larger circles
• This helped to explain what we see in the sky
Geocentric Model
How did the Heliocentric model develop?
• Heliocentric model- sun centered• All planets revolve around the sun• Aristarchus first developed this idea
• Many scientists further developed the heliocentric idea
Heliocentric Model
Heliocentric Model
• Copernicus was able to work out the arrangement of the known planets and how they moved around the sun
• Brahe and Kepler furthered the idea after years of detailed calculations, Kepler found that the obit of each planet is an ellipse ( oval shape)
• Galileo evidence gradually convinced other that the heliocentric model was correct