Planetary Motion Kepler's Third Law of Orbital Motion shows how you can approximate the period P (in Earth years) it takes a planet to complete one orbit of the sun. Use the function
It takes Mars approximately 1.87 Earth years to orbit the sun.
How can you find a
You can use
All the properties of integer exponents apply to rational exponents.
Let m and n represent rational numbers. Assume that no denominator equals 0.
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