10-Minute Astronomy!  Episode 5:  Preview of Chapters 3 and 4: Orbits, Gravity, Earth, Moon and Sky
Channel: The Astronomers
Date: 2021-02-20

This Episode previews Chapter 3 on Orbits and Gravity, and Chapter 4 on Earth, Moon and Sky.

3.1 The Laws of Planetary Motion
3.2 Newton’s Great Synthesis
3.3 Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
3.4 Orbits in the Solar System
3.5 Motions of Satellites and Spacecraft
3.6 Gravity with More Than Two Bodies

4.1 Earth and Sky 
4.2 The Seasons
4.3 Keeping Time
4.4 The Calendar
4.5 Phases and Motions of the Moon
4.6 Ocean Tides and the Moon
4.7 Eclipses of the Sun and Moon

Prof. Jim Caffey Presents: "10-Minute Astronomy!" 2021 Edition 

Award-Winning Online Astronomy Professor Jim Caffey, based in Springfield, Missouri, brings you "10-Minute Astronomy!" 2021 Edition, his new Lecture Video Series based on the FREE Text from OpenStax Astronomy. 

30 lectures and 15 short introductions were added and updated for 2021 with accurate close captions for the deaf and hearing impaired by Hidy Hesham (Cairo University, Giza, Egypt). Professor Caffey was named one of the Leading Online Astronomy Professors using Virtual and Immersive Technologies in 2008 by his peers in Astronomy Education. 

This lecture series is an OER - Open Educational Resource, meaning it can be shared and used freely, with credit given to Professor Jim Caffey. Designed for non-science majors, high school students, amateur and backyard astronomers, or the public. 

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