Solar system Physics

What is Heliocentric?

• With the Sun in the center, the planets revolve around it.

• With the Sun in the middle, the planets revolve around it.

• With the Sun at the top, the planets revolve around it.

• With the Sun in the below, the planets revolve around it.

With the Earth in the center

• Heliocenter

• Geocenter

• Epicycle

Circle on another circle. This geometric model was devised by the ancient Greeks to explain variations in the speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, the Sun and the planets.

• Heliocenter

• Geocenter

• Epicycle

Greek thinkers "The laws that governed the movement of objects on Earth were

different from those that governed the behavior of the stars in the sky"

• True

• False

Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BC) proposed a geocentric model

• True

• False

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) resumed heliocentric model assuming that the planets describe circular orbits around the Sun.

• True

• False

Ptolomy proposed the Earth as the center of the Universe and the Sun

• True

• False

This heliocenter model was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church

• True

• False

In the heliocentric model assume that the motion of a planet was described as a uniform circular motion.

• True

• False

Isaac Newton identified and unified the causes of planetary movement with those that correspond to the orbit of bodies

• True

• False