Newton's Gravity An Introductory Guide to the Mechanics of the Universe /

“Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate the  actual pulls...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: MacDougal, Douglas W. (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Σειρά:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction - The Twin Mysteries of Mass -- Chapter 2: Galileo's Great Discovery - How Things Fall -- Chapter 3: Christiaan Huygens' Remarkable Pendulum -- Chapter 4: The Geometry of the Solar System - Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion -- Chapter 5: How the Moon Falls Toward the Earth (but keeps missing it) -- Chapter 6: Newton's Moon Test -- Chapter 7: Newton Demonstrate How an Inverse Square Law Could Explain Planetary Motions -- Chapter 8: Newton's Master Stroke - The Universal Law of Gravitation -- Chapter 9: Determining the Value of g on Earth -- Chapter 10: A Binary System Close to Home - How the Moon and Earth Orbit Each Other -- Chapter 11: Using Kepler's Third Law to Find the Masses of Stars and Planets -- Chapter 12: Motion in Elliptical Orbits -- Chapter 13: The Energy and Geometry of Orbits -- Chapter 14: Introduction to Spaceflight -- Chapter 15: Getting Oriented - The Sun, the Earth, and the Ecliptic Planet -- Chapter 16: An Introduction to Kepler's Problem - Finding the True Anomaly of an Orbiting Body -- Chapter 17: What Causes the Tides? -- Chapter 18: Moon, Rings, and the Ripping Forces of Tides -- Chapter 19: Hovering in Space - Those Mysterious Langrangian Points -- Appendix: Solutions -- Index. 
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