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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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
