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See Fig. What is being plotted? Put numbers with units on each axis.

See Fig. What is being plotted? Put numbers with units on each axis.
 

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Kevin Nash
askIITians Faculty 332 Points
8 years ago
From Keeper’ law, the relation between period and semi major axis of the planets orbit around the Sun is given by
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Here, period of the planets around the Sun is T, semi major axis of the planets is a, gravitational constant is G and mass of the Jupiter is M.
Take log on both sides of the equation.
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From Appendix A-5, the table presenting log10 a and log10 T for various planets is given below.
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The required graph is shown below:
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