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Physics Tutorial 22.1 - Earth and Other Celestial Bodies

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There are 6 lessons in this physics tutorial covering Earth and Other Celestial Bodies. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Earth and Other Celestial Bodies and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific physics lesson as required to build your physics knowledge of Earth and Other Celestial Bodies. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.

In this Physics tutorial, you will learn:

  • What are celestial bodies? How do they move?
  • What is Solar System? What celestial bodies does it contain?
  • What are stars/galaxies/universe?
  • What are planets? What common features do they share?
  • How planets are classified? What is the main difference that has brought in this classification?
  • What are the main features of each individual planet?
  • What are the main features of natural satellites?
  • What are asteroids/meteors/comets and their main features?
  • How to calculate the distance of a given planet from the Sun?

Introduction

As a species, we have been aware of the existence of planets for thousands of years and they have played a key part in our everyday lives and our evolution. Astronomy, the science that deals with celestial bodies, is one of the oldest branches of physics. The Earth itself is a planet, a type of celestial body, yet scientists only realized this fact many centuries after discovering and observing other planets. It is very interesting that people knew many properties of other planets, including the period of revolution, position, spherical shape etc., but believed that the Earth to be different from all the other celestial bodies. They assumed that it was flat in shape. An entire theory was produced based on this false assumption - a theory that obviously was overthrown by famous scientists during the last period of Middle Age and Renaissance.

In this tutorial, we will discuss key questions relating to Astronomy including: What celestial bodies are made of? How do they move? How far are they from each other and from the Sun? and many other interesting questions that have been the most important and challenging questions for humanity for a long time.

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Cosmology Learning Material
Tutorial IDPhysics Tutorial TitleTutorialVideo
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22.1Earth and Other Celestial Bodies
Lesson IDPhysics Lesson TitleLessonVideo
Lesson
22.1.1Background
22.1.2Earth and Planets
22.1.3Earthy and Giant Planets
22.1.4Main Features of Planets
22.1.5The Moon and Other Natural Satellites
22.1.6Other Celestial Bodies in the Solar System

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  5. Continuing learning cosmology - read our next physics tutorial: Sun and Planetary Motion

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