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The Precession of Mercury's Perihelion
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The Precession of Mercury's Perihelion: A Mystery and a Mathematical Solution
Taylor Seitz
Guilford College
30 April 2013
First, Kepler's 1st
first law illustration
illustration of apses and velocity
"The orbit of every planet is an ellipse, with the Sun at one of the two foci."
...but what does that even mean?
- What's a precession?
- What's a perihelion?
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Objectives
- Calculate the precession for the perihelion of the planet Mercury, using a 4th-order Runge-Kutta method in a MATLAB program
- Demonstrate how this was used to show that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was "not wrong"
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