Exercise Sheet 8: Satellite

A satellite on its orbit around the earth.

  • law of gravity
  • orbits of celestial bodies

Exercise Sheet 8

based on

  • exercise Sheet 6

This sheet requires the mechanics.jar library. You can find them here.

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Different trajectories of the satellite. The last picture shows a geostationary satellite orbiting the earth in a circular orbit in a sidereal day.