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Kepler orbits

Does a planet's orbital period really go as the 3/2 power of its orbit size?

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How the lab tests it

Place planets on circular orbits at several radii, time each period, and plot T² against a³.

What it checks

Kepler's third law — a shared constant T²/a³ = 4π²/μ

This is one world in the PHS lab — 91 interactive simulations, each posing a question and measuring the answer. See the catalogued findings.