How does the model of the solar system differ from the orbital model of electrons?

Answer 1

We can not differentiate between the solar system and an elliptical orbit. The solar system consists of planets, their satellites, asteroids and comets. Orbit is the path of the members of a star around that centre and these paths may be in elliptical orbits.

Answer 2

Every closed orbit is elliptical.

In a precise, exact, situation ... roughly as probable as a tossed coin landing upright

on its edge ... the ellipse has zero eccentricity, and is a perfect circle.

An orbit that's not closed, such as a comet whipping around the sun once and escaping

the solar system, is hyperbolic, not elliptical. It can also be a parabola, but the chances

of that are the same as the chances of a closed elliptical orbit being exactly circular.

Answer 3

Aristotle had thought that the Earth was the Geo-centric or the center of the universe and everything circled or revolved around it. Copernicus thought that the Sun is the center of the universe. Copernicus' idea is called Helios-centric.

Answer 4

It is essentially an ellipse which is a fancy term for Oval.

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If you take a pencil, a pin and a piece of string, you can draw a circle; tie each end of the string to the pin, stick the pin in the paper, and put the tip of the pencil in the loop of the string. Then carefully draw a circle. The pin is at the center of the circle.

Let's do something a little different, Take TWO pins, tie each end of the string to one of the pins, and put the pins in the paper a short distance apart. There should be lots of slack in the string. Then loop the string around the tip of the pencil, gently stretch the string and draw the shape around the edge. This is an ellipse, which is a special kind of oval.

A circle has a center; but an ellipse has a "focus", where the pin is. In fact, there are TWO, and the plural of "focus" is "foci".

In an orbit, the Sun (or the primary body) is at one focus of the ellipse. There isn't anything at the other focus.

If the two pins are very close, then the "eccentricity" of the ellipse is very low. Earth's orbit, for example, has a very low eccentricity; our orbit is ALMOST a circle, but not quite. The Moon's orbit around the Earth is a little more eccentric.

A comet has a very high eccentricity; the other focus of a cometary orbit is way out in the solar system.

Answer 5

Let's be very clear here; Aristotle never had a "model" of the solar system. Aristotle may have been the wrongest person every to live on this planet. His views on astronomy were laughable, his philosophy was evil, and his medical advice may have been the cause of more deaths than any mass murderer in history.

Copernicus' concept of the solar system was limited by the nature of his observations, but was in general pretty close. He placed the Sun in the center of the solar system with the visible planets traveling around it, although the Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos beat him to it by about 1800 years. Copernicus had neither the math (he was primarily a cleric and medical doctor) nor the observations to anticipate that the planets followed elliptical rather than circular paths. These discoveries would come later with Kepler and Newton.

Answer 6

The modern model predicts the future positions of the planets, and explains their past positions,
MUCH more accurately than the ancient one did.

Answer 7

An elliptical orbit is shaped like an oval, (oblong), it's not circular. Pluto has an elliptical orbit.

Answer 8

because the solar system in space is really big and the one on earth is going to be small as a model

Answer 9

An elliptical orbit is egg-shaped. There is no such thing as a circular orbit that lasts more than a small amount of time. A circular orbit will soon degenerate into an elliptical orbit.

Answer 10

A circle is just a special case of an ellipse: It's the ellipse whose eccentricity is zero,

that is, whose major and minor axes are equal, and whose foci (focuses) coincide.