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P10-04: Elliptical Orbits

Author: Timothy McGovern

ASSIGNMENT

Start off with this INTERACTIVE FIGURE on drawing ellipses and circles.  It's surprisingly helpful.  Watch my video lesson and check out this SCREENCAST.  When you get the chance, take a look at p. 195 in the textbook for an interesting sidebar on satellites.  That puts a lot of this together to answer a question you may have always had about worldwide communications.

Source: Hewitt, P. G. (2015). Conceptual Physics (12th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.