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Imagine thee planets interacting through gravity, mathematically how should they come and rotate in a same plane, like planets and sun?
Shubham135 said:Imagine thee planets interacting through gravity, mathematically how should they come and rotate in a same plane, like planets and sun?
A.T. said:
but rotation can be in two planes, think about it, a point fixed at origin second point rotating aroung it in xy plane and third one in yz plane.Vanadium 50 said:Three points determine a plane.
It applies to 3 particles too, but collisions are less likely.Shubham135 said:sir i heard all that the galaxies started as dust and then it cooled and due to angular momentum conservation it happrnd, but my question is that if three point masses
I think the OP means a plane that contains the Sun too, and has a fixed orientation in an inertial frame.Vanadium 50 said:Three points determine a plane.
Shubham135 said:think about it
Vanadium 50 said:Good advice.
Three points determine a plane. Three bodies will always be in a plane. It is true that that plane may not be constant in a particular coordinate system (e.g. one where everything is moving up with some velocity) but that is always true.
If you are talking about three planets and the sun, you should say so and do it clearly.
So they don't come into a place throught collisions ..sp how do they come in the plane?A.T. said:It applies to 3 particles too, but collisions are less likely.
I mean three particles..if collisions are less likely ..let say one has radius of orbit twise as big than the other and they rotate around sun with sun at center in circular orbits...and their axis of rotation are perpendicular..will they cone to an intermediate plane?Shubham135 said:So they don't come into a place throught collisions ..sp how do they come in the plane?
so the collisions is the only culprit here? or can we say they come into plane through mutual graviational attraction?A.T. said:No.
Without collisions, they won't necessarily tend towards one plane.Shubham135 said:I mean three particles..if collisions are less likely ..let say one has radius of orbit twise as big than the other and they rotate around sun with sun at center in circular orbits...and their axis of rotation are perpendicular..will they cone to an intermediate plane?
A planar orbit refers to the path that a planet takes as it revolves around the sun. It is a two-dimensional plane that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the planet.
Planets maintain a planar orbit around the sun due to the force of gravity. The sun's massive gravitational pull keeps the planets in orbit and prevents them from deviating from the planar path.
Yes, all planets in our solar system have a planar orbit. This is due to the fact that our solar system formed from a large, rotating disk of gas and dust, which resulted in all the planets orbiting in the same plane.
Yes, a planet's orbit can become non-planar over time due to various factors such as gravitational interactions with other planets or external forces from objects outside of our solar system. However, these changes are typically small and do not significantly affect the overall planar nature of the orbit.
The distance of a planet from the sun does not have a significant impact on its planar orbit. As long as the planet remains within the gravitational pull of the sun, it will continue to orbit in a planar path. However, the distance can affect the shape of the orbit, with planets further from the sun having more elliptical orbits compared to those closer to the sun.