The Key to Newton's Dynamics : The Kepler Problem and the Principia / J. Bruce Brackenridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brackenridge, J. Bruce, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kepler's laws.

Celestial mechanics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necessary to maintain ideal planetary motion. J. Bruce Brackenridge sets the problem in historical and conceptual perspective, showing the physicist's debt to the works of both Descartes and Galileo. He tracks Newton's work on the Kepler problem from its early stages at Cambridge before 1669, through the revival of his interest ten years later, to its fruition in the first three sections of the first edition of the Principia.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I. THE BACKGROUND TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION

PART II. A GUIDED STUDY TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION

PART III. THE REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION

APPENDIX

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX TO THE GUIDED STUDY AND THE TRANSLATION

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contains:

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia. Liber I. Selections. English

ISBN:

9786612355004

9781282355002

1282355007

9780520916852

0520916859

9780585375823

0585375828

OCLC:

630528673