Re: inverse-square law through geometry

From: matt (mariusrf_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:49:30 -0500

Brian Tung wrote in message ...
>Since it's cloudy here and the aurora probably couldn't be seen this
>far down anyway even if it were clear, I passed some time demonstrating,
>somewhat less than rigorously, the inverse-square law of gravity using
>only geometrical methods--without analysis, in other words. If you find
>that sort of stuff interesting (and I can't see why you would), I've
>made a short PDF of it available at
>
> http://astro.isi.edu/notes/gravity.pdf
>
>Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu>
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looks more like a tautology . You're basing it on Kepler's Laws (and some
geometry/trig ), which already include the effects of gravity . Entertaining
reading anyway, almost like an Umberto Eco novel ( seriously ) .

best regards,
matt tudor

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