Angular Momentum and Kepler’s Second Law
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This guided inquiry activity helps students to describe angular momentum, tangential velocity, and acceleration for orbiting objects. This activity helps students to understand angular momentum and its conservation as it applies to orbiting celestial objects. This activity is appropriate for university calculus-based introductory physics or for an upper-division mechanics course.