Table of Contents: “…The Kepler problem : Kepler's laws ; The law of universal gravity ; Details of the orbits ; Law of conservation of energy far from the earth ; Choosing the constant in U -- 8. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE) -- Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE) -- Phases of the moon (448 BCE) -- Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE) -- Aristotle's universe (350 BCE) -- Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE) -- Archimedes' balance (250 BCE) -- Archimedes' principle (250 BCE) -- The size of the earth (225 BCE) -- Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE) -- The optics of vision (1020 CE) -- Oresme's triangle -- Leonardo and earthshine -- Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos -- The impossibility of perpetual motion -- Snell's law -- The mountains on the moon -- The moons of Jupiter -- Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- Galileo on free fall -- Galileo on projectile motion -- Scaling and similitude -- The weight of air -- Boyle's law -- Newton's theory of color -- Free-body diagrams -- Newton's cradle -- Newtonian trajectories -- Huygens' principle -- Bernoulli's principle -- Electrostatics -- Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit -- Oersted's demonstration -- Carnot's simplest heat engine -- Joules's apparatus -- Faraday's lines of force -- Maxwell's electromagnetic waves -- Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect -- Brownian motion -- Rutherford's gold foil experiment -- Bohr's hydrogen atom -- X-rays and crystals -- General relativity -- Compton scattering -- Matter waves -- The expanding universe (1927-29) -- The neutrino and conservation of energy -- Discovering the neutron -- Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion -- Global greenhouse effect -- Higgs boson (2012).…”
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