The Sun: Earth's External Heat Engine SPN#33

Worksheet 1: Earth’s Orbit. You have probably constructed models of elliptical orbits using tacks and string. In this lab exercise, we are going to take a slightly different approach to modeling the orbit of Earth around the Sun. You know that the orbit of Earth is an ellipse and that the Sun is located at one of the foci of that ellipse. ................
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