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- ...wton line.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|{{mvar|E, K, F}} lie on a common line, the Newton line]] {{distinguish|Newton-Gauss line|Isaac Newton line}} ...3 KB (349 words) - 04:27, 26 December 2024
- ...first= Isaac |last= Asimov |title= Asimov on Astronomy |publisher= Coronet Books |date= 1976 |isbn= 0-340-20015-4 |pages= 125–139 }}</ref> According to [[Isaac Newton]]'s [[law of universal gravitation]] ...3 KB (469 words) - 18:44, 4 August 2023
- [[File:Newton-Gauss Line Default Figure.png|thumb| {{legend-line|solid lime|'''Newton-Gauss line''' through the midpoints {{mvar|L, M, N}} of the diagonals}}]] ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 15:24, 22 November 2024
- ...ian calculi.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Grossman |first1=Michael |url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=RLuJmE5y8pYC}} |title=Non-Newtonian calculus |last2=Katz |f ...couraged to improve the table by inserting citations for verification, and by inserting more functions and more calculi. ...8 KB (1,210 words) - 08:19, 2 August 2024
- ...f [[Georgi Manev]]'s gravitational law, given by a small perturbation of [[Newton's law of universal gravitation]], in the general context of (what he called ...re. For the case <math>n=2</math>, this problem was independently proposed by [[János Bolyai]] and [[Nikolai Lobachevsky]], the founders of hyperbolic ge ...10 KB (1,289 words) - 05:12, 27 September 2024
- ...hat true [[Rotation around a fixed axis|rotational motion]] can be defined by observing the tension in the string joining two identical spheres. The basi ...ok |title=The Cambridge companion to Newton |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=3wIzvqzfUXkC&pg=PA43 |author=I. Bernard Cohen |author2=George Edwin Smit ...24 KB (3,786 words) - 13:54, 21 November 2024
- ==Huygens, Leibniz, Newton, and Hooke== ...resented. Hence it is not located in nature, but is the result of a choice by the observer. In the first case a mathematical formulation mirrors centrifu ...25 KB (3,730 words) - 02:01, 17 December 2024
- ...is a function of the polar angle relative to the horizontal line as given by the equation ({{EquationNote|13}})]] ...of mass of which is assumed to be the center of mass of the entire system. By decomposition, the orbits of two objects of similar mass can be described a ...42 KB (6,589 words) - 09:00, 25 February 2025
- ...motion|laws of motion]]. It also includes the classical approach as given by [[Hamiltonian mechanics|Hamiltonian]] and [[Lagrangian mechanics|Lagrange]] ...ing upon being squeezed into one another. ...''" vol. '''I''' p. I–2</ref> By modeling matter as collections of hard spheres, it is possible to describe ...20 KB (2,609 words) - 06:59, 3 February 2025
- {{short description|1673 book on pendular motion by Christiaan Huygens}} ...Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences]]'' (1638) and [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]’s {{lang|la|[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]}} (1687).<ref ...29 KB (4,152 words) - 19:57, 18 February 2025
- ...s also judged on its ability to make new predictions which can be verified by new observations. A physical theory differs from a [[theorem|mathematical t ...various measurable quantities. [[Archimedes]] realized that a ship floats by displacing its mass of water, [[Pythagoras]] understood the relation betwee ...24 KB (3,242 words) - 06:59, 18 February 2025
- ...ysics for algebraists: non-commutative and non-cocommutative Hopf algebras by a bicrossproduct construction|journal= J. Algebra|volume= 130 |year=1990|pa ...t Schwarz of a 6-month programme on noncommutative geometry at the [[Isaac Newton Institute]] in 2006. In 2009, he was a [[Leverhulme Trust]] Senior Research ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 13:06, 7 May 2023
- ...tifiques]], the [[Mittag-Leffler Institute]] in [[Stockholm]], the [[Isaac Newton Institute]] in [[Cambridge]], and the [[Mathematical Sciences Research Inst ...ogy of a product<ref>[[Maxim Kontsevich]] and [[Yuri Manin]] with appendix by R. Kaufmann. ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 20:34, 21 July 2024
- ...ve-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316011539/https://books.google.com/books?id=XGZlIvCOtFsC|url-status=live}}</ref> Note, that in Latin {{wikt-lang|la| In 1673, in ''[[Horologium Oscillatorium]]'', Huygens writes (as translated by [[Richard J. Blackwell]]):<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blackwell |first1=Richard ...49 KB (7,453 words) - 00:57, 13 February 2025
- ...perimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science: Boyle, Locke and Newton |location=Aldershot |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=0-7546-4091-4 |oclc=53887772 } ...influence of [[force]]s. Later, methods based on [[energy]] were developed by Euler, [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]], [[William Rowan Hamilton]] and others, le ...52 KB (7,667 words) - 01:16, 23 February 2025
- ...to determine the [[Arithmetic mean|mean]] [[density of the Earth]]. Funded by a grant from the [[Royal Society]], it was conducted in the summer of 1774 ...d, but rejected, by [[Isaac Newton]] as a practical demonstration of his [[Newton's law of universal gravitation|theory of gravitation]]; however, a team of ...32 KB (4,789 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2025
- In [[physics]], [[time]] is defined by its [[operational definition|measurement]]: time is what a [[clock]] reads. ...istic physics, it is a [[scalar (physics)|scalar]] quantity (often denoted by the symbol <math>t</math>) and, like [[length]], [[mass]], and [[electric c ...44 KB (6,745 words) - 19:31, 16 February 2025
- {{short description|1801 double-slit experiment by Thomas Young}} ...le-slit experiment]], performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]]. This experiment played a major r ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 11:19, 27 February 2025
- ...nslation (geometry)|translation]] at a uniform speed, and the other moving by [[rotation (geometry)|rotation]] around one of its points at a uniform spee ...alone. Although a [[dense set]] of points on the curve can be constructed by compass and straightedge, allowing these problems to be approximated, the w ...22 KB (3,342 words) - 07:43, 1 March 2025
- ...The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SxoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=10 October 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978 [[File:Conic Sections.svg|thumb|240px|right|Mathematics was developed by the Ancient Civilizations for intellectual challenge and pleasure. Surprisi ...30 KB (4,211 words) - 02:48, 8 February 2025