Newton would never have found such obvious satisfaction in solemnly confuting Descartes by arguments which, if not exactly trivial, are certainly laboured. One might well guess that this was an essay written by a young student who had recently been introduced both to the science of hydrostatics and
Orbital dynamics of space vehicles: by Ralph Deutsch. 410 pages, diagrams, 6 × 9 in. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Price, $16.00
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1964
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 277
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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and quantum mechanics. Other subjects considered are a possible variation of the universal constant of gravitation G with time and the effect of such a variation on astronomy and geophysics. Gravitational waves are also discussed extensively as well as the concept of critical masses as related to astrophysics.
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