Online Assignment for Thursday, October 9

Instead of face-to-face class today, we were to complete the online assimilation of Kepler's Laws. This website was confusing to me, but I still did it. On this website, there was an "interactive java animation which allows the students to experiment the planet motion under Kepler's law." It was interesting to see, but I did not really understand what it was. There was a clock which showed the units of an earth-year. And there were buttons you could push to change the assimilation. You could also push the "sweep" button to allow you to see the area that was swept by the planet. This was an interesting assignment to do. since you could see the distance between the earth and the sun. Overall, I think this would be a useful experiment to show my students in the future just so they understand what is happening.