Model of the Solar System. Who is This Greek Guy?
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Model of the Solar System
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Who is This Greek Guy?
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Two models of the Solar System1. Aristotle
- Lived more than 2000 years ago in Greece
-Geocentric Model:-Earth is the centre of the solar system and all other bodies rotate around it-Earth was stable and motionless-Accepted for over 2000 years-Planets is greek for ‘wanderers’
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Geocentric Model Problem:
-Retrograde motion: the apparent backwards motion of planets as a faster orbiting planet passes it.- Ex. Earth travels around the Sun faster than Mars
How did we overcome this??
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A solution was found by Ptolemy:
-Who lived around 140 AD
-he proposed the idea of epicycles (small circles) on the planetary orbits and these explained retrograde motion
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But there was a problem with Ptolemy’s epicycles:
-very complicated; still not accurate in predicting planet positions
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2.Nicolaus Copernicus (Late 1400’s):
- Heliocentric Model:Sun centered model of the solar system
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•Kepler▫A mathematician ▫Made model more accurate by finding that
orbits were ellipses rather than circles
Problems:- no knowledge of gravity; still not accurate in predicting planet positions.
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Clinching Evidence:1. Galileo (1609)- Developed a telescope- Saw moons orbiting
Jupiter
2. Newton (1667)- developed laws of motion
and gravity based on Kepler’s work and which are true for earthly and celestial bodies
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