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Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion

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The path is approximately circular so F = mrw².

Therefore

GM = r³w²

and, as w = 2p/T we have

This is a statement of Kepler’s third law.

This is further evidence to support the inverse square law of gravitation.

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