Elliptic orbits
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Professor Albert V. Baez starts with an elliptic orbit (as of a satellite) and uses Kepler's law of areas to show that the gravitational force on the satellite obeys an inverse square relation, explaining that the derivation is almost entirely geometric in nature.
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