Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science - Softcover

Büttner, Jochen

 
9789402415933: Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science
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ISBN 10: 9402415939 ISBN 13: 9789402415933
Publisher: Springer, 2019

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Synopsis

1. Introduction, Novel Insights about accelerated motion: the challenge of pendulums and planes.- 2. Speaking the investigation of naturally accelerated motion: The broken chord approach.- 3. Early experimentation: The Pendulum Plane Experiment.- 4. Prerequisite for, or challenged by the new theory: The 'ex mechanics' proof of the Law of Chords.- 5. Foundational issues before 1604: Fundamental propositions, the mechanical method and problems with the concept of velocity. Conclusion, Appendix.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9402415939
ISBN 13 
9789402415933
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
490

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