Cracking the SAT Physics Subject Test

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Therefore, the planet moves faster when it is nearer the sun than when it is farther
away.


Kepler’s Third Law


If T is the period (the time it takes the planet to make one orbit around the sun) and


a is the length of the semimajor axis of a planet’s orbit, then the ratio T^2 /a^3 is the
same for all the planets.

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