Homework #7
Due by 5 pm Friday October 31st.
Note that there will be no new homework next week as we will have our second exam!
- 5-18) A tides problem.
- 6-14) Remember these?
- 7-27) Can you say about the solutions from looking at the facts you have?
- 8-4) Playing with the standard orbit equation.
- 8-13) Note that the question is not exactly accurate. Only one of the
three cases actually results in a precessing ellipse. I want you to describe
what happens in each of the three situations.
- 8-16) Another playing with the ellipse equation problem.
- 8-23) And another.
- 8-35) Nearly circular orbits and the apsidal angle problem.
