INSTRUCTIONS
Clicking with the left button in the black area
it will appear a blue circle (the body), a green and a blue constant length
vectors (a coordinate frame along the radial and tangent directions) and a
white vector (the starting speed). Just drag the mouse around keeping pressed
the left mouse button to change the vector length.
As you move the vector it will automatically appear the orbit of the body
according to the gravity laws discovered empirically by J. Kepler:
First Law
Planets move around the sun describing elliptic paths.
The center of the sun lies over a focus of the ellipse.
Second Law
Third Law
The area spanned by the vector connecting the sun with
the planet in a fixed time is constant, i.e it does not depend on the time
chosen to start counting.
The squares of planets revolution periods are proportional to the cubes
of the half length of the greater axis of the orbit.