Kepler's third law without a calculator
Ruiz M.J.
2004
Physics Teacher
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10.1119/1.1828724
At the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNC-A) we have used Kepler's third law in a liberal-arts conceptual astronomy course to help students sharpen their quantitative skills without using a calculator. Doing quantitative physics without a calculator represents one of the many ways we can study the physical world. Furthermore, it is fun.
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