Homework Set 1

Due Date:
Thursday, September 9, 1999, at the beginning of class. A word of caution: you have two weeks but it is a long homework set. Please do not leave it until the last minute.

1. Launching Satellites
2. Orbits of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator
3. Copernicus versus Ptolemy
4. Synodic versus Sidereal Periods
5. Newton's and Gauss's Laws of Gravitation