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  Newton's gravity [electronic resource] : an introductory guide to the mechanics of the universe

  Author

  MacDougal, Douglas W.  

  Publisher:

  Springer,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  1 online resource.

  ISBN:

  9781461454441

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  1 copy for Website.
  

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  Newton's gravity [electronic resource] : an introductory guide to the mechanics of the universe
  MacDougal, Douglas W.
  

  Personal Author:

  MacDougal, Douglas W.

  Title:

  Newton's gravity [electronic resource] : an introductory guide to the mechanics of the universe / Douglas W. MacDouglal.

  Publication info:

  New York : Springer, c2012.

  Physical descrip:

  1 online resource.

  Series:

  (Undergraduate lecture notes in physics)

  Contents:

  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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  Purchased with a license for unlimited simultaneous UFV users.

  Issuing body:

  Made available online by Springer.

  Held by:

  WEBSITE

  Subject term:

  Celestial mechanics.

  Subject term:

  Gravity.

  Internet Access:

  https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ufv.ca?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4614-5444-1