Astronomy

HASHIMOTO, Keizo
  Elective  2 credits
【Aerospace Engineering・2nd semester】
17-1-0331-2335

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Outline
This course is an introductory to astronomy, History of astronomy will be presented and planets, stars, and stellar evolution will be discussed. Topics include Kepler’s law of planetary motion. Planets and artificial satellites obey Newton’s law and their position and velocity can be predicted precisely by applying the Kepler equation. The minimum amount of energy required by a satellite to transfer another orbit and ‘rendezvous’ of two satellites will be discussed.
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Objectives
This introductory course presents a fundamental knowledge of astronomy. The goal of this course is to be able to calculate a orbital motion based on the Kepler’ law, and the universal law of gravitation.
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Outline
This course is an introductory to astronomy, History of astronomy will be presented and planets, stars, and stellar evolution will be discussed. Topics include Kepler’s law of planetary motion. Planets and artificial satellites obey Newton’s law and their position and velocity can be predicted precisely by applying the Kepler equation. The minimum amount of energy required by a satellite to transfer another orbit and ‘rendezvous’ of two satellites will be discussed.
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Objectives
This introductory course presents a fundamental knowledge of astronomy. The goal of this course is to be able to calculate a orbital motion based on the Kepler’ law, and the universal law of gravitation.
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