Why is that larger planets rotate faster and orbit the sun slower then smaller planets??
I’m not sure that it is a fact that larger planets rotate faster than smaller planets. Any how, don’t think of planets in terms of their size (volume), but think of them in terms of mass (how much matter they contain). The more massive a planet, the more gravitational attraction it will have to the star it is orbiting. So if a bunch of planets of the same mass were to orbit a star at different distances, say the sun to mars and the sun to jupiter, mars would have to orbit at a much faster angular velocity than jupiter. The closer you are to the star your orbiting and the more mass you have, the faster you have to move so that you don’t crash into the star. If you move too fast you will have an ellipical orbit, and if you move faster than that, then you will fly off orbit. Look up Newton’s Law of Gravitational Attraction and orbital mechanics. It’s a lot easier than it sounds.
