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| - | - Students use a Maple Worksheet to generate polar plots of orbits | + | - This computer visualization activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students visualize various plots of orbiting bodies. |
| - | - Students explore parameter space of orbits by looking at how the shape is affected by different terms in the equation (i.e. ellipticity) | + | - Students use a Maple Worksheet or a Mathematica Notebook to generate polar plots of orbits while exploring the parameter space of the orbits. |
| + | - The whole class wrap-up discussion addresses how the shape of the orbits depend on a variety of parameters (i.e. ellipticity). | ||
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