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Which of the following statements cannot be supported by Kepler's laws of planetary motion?

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gladu [14]2 years ago

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Answer:

The rotational speed of the four smallest planets can be determined using the rotational speeds of the four largest planets and their orbital periods.

Explanation:

Kepler's three laws are:

1) The orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses, with the Sun at one of the focii

2) A line connecting the Sun with each planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals

3) The cube of the semi-major axis of the orbit of one planet is proportional to the square of its orbital period

There 3 laws help explaining the following statements:

- A planet's distance from the sun will not be the same in six months. --> using the 1st law. In fact, since the orbit is an ellipse (and not a circle), and the Sun is at one of the focii, the distance of the planet from the Sun keeps changing during the year.

- A planet's speed as it moves around the sun will not be the same in six months. --> using the 2nd law. In fact, since the line connecting the Sun to the planet must cover equal areas in the same time interval, it follows that the speed of the planet cannot be constant during the year (it will be faster when closer to the sun and slower when far from the sun).

- The average distance of Saturn can be calculated using the average distance of Neptune and the orbital period of both planets. --> using the 3rd law. In fact, the ratio $\frac{a^3}{T^2}$ (where a is the semi-major axis of the orbit and T the orbital period) is constant and it is the same for every planet orbiting the sun, so by knowing the data of Neptune and the orbital period of Saturn, it is possible to calculate Saturn's average distance.

Instead, the following statement:

The rotational speed of the four smallest planets can be determined using the rotational speeds of the four largest planets and their orbital periods.

Is not supported by any Kepler's law.

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22) Index of refraction describes the optical density

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24) Glass refracts light more than water

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27) Critical angle is larger for the glass-water interface

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It is possible to slow down light and then speed it up again by making light passing from a medium with low optical density (for example, air) into a medium with higher optical density (for example, glass), and then make the light passing again from glass to air.

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$\theta_1, \theta_2$ are the angle of incidence and refraction (the angle between the incident ray (or refracted ray) and the normal to the boundary)

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A high index of refraction means that the material has a high optical density, which means that light travels more slowly into that medium
A low index of refraction means that the material has a low optical density, which means that light travels faster into that medium

Be careful that optical density is a completely different property from density.

23)

As we said in part 22), the index of refraction describes the optical density of a medium.

In this case, we have:

A material with refractive index of 1.1
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As we said previously, light travels faster in materials with a lower refractive index: therefore in this case, light travels more quickly in material 1, which has a refractive index of only 1.1, than material 2, whose index of refraction is much higher (2.2).

24)

Rewriting Snell's law,

$sin \theta_2 = \frac{n_1}{n_2}sin \theta_1$ (1)

For light moving from air to water:

$n_1 \sim 1.00$ is the index of refraction of air

$n_2 = 1.33$ is the index of refraction ofwater

In this case, $\frac{n_1}{n_2}=\frac{1.00}{1.33}=0.75$

For light moving from air to glass,

$n_2 = 1.51$ is the index of refraction of glass

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$\frac{n_1}{n_2}=\frac{1.00}{1.51}=0.66$

From eq.(1), we see that the angle of refraction $\theta_2$ is smaller in the 2nd case: so glass refracts light more than water, because of its higher index of refraction.

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The index of refraction of a material is

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The value of the critical angle is given by

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The critical angle is

$\theta_c = sin^{-1}(\frac{n_2}{n_1})=sin^{-1}(\frac{1.00}{1.51})=41.5^{\circ}$

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$\theta_c = sin^{-1}(\frac{n_2}{n_1})=sin^{-1}(\frac{1.33}{1.51})=61.7^{\circ}$

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