Assignment Details

Planet Data and Graphs

Year 2022-23

10G-Physics

Date Due

Nov. 20, 2022

Additional Info
Sorry for this not appearing earlier in the week. I have given you longer to finsih it.

Also, I stand corrected about the temperature of the sun - I misinterpreted an article about the sun when I was putting my slides together. I put an extract on the content library that will clear it up. (Essentially all you need to know is that the sun has a core, and it's hot, and that thermal energy gives the nuclei the kinetic energy to overcome their repulsion and fuse together)
2 - Temperature of the Sun (Web view)

Anyway, on to your homework.... On OneNote
03 - Astrophysics > Lesson 01 - Scale of the universe

Find Document "HWK - Planetary Orbits - Graphs"

I have kindly found the data and done that bit for you (I know you started completing these tables two lessons ago, but if you go of the completed table, you will all be making the same graphs hopefully).... (data is from here if you want to check)...
List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System - Wikipedia

Use the data to complete three graphs;
  1. Orbital Radius (in AU) - Orbital Speed (in km/s)
  2. Orbital Radius (in AU) - Orbital Period (in 'Earth Years')
  3. Orbital Radius (in AU) - Orbital Speed (in 'Earth Days')
    • For the last one, don't try and plot Mercury and Venus - they are anomalies!
USE THE MARKING GRID TO THE RIGHT OF EACH ONE to make sure your graphs are as good as they can be.

If doing it on paper, insert clear scans of them where the graph paper is on the page in OneNote

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