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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Implicit Orbits

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson describes what would happen to various satellites if their planets vanished. Implicit differentiation is used to determine the tangent to each satellite's orbit, which is the path the satellite would travel in the absence of its planet.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)