Newton’s 1679/80 solution of the constant gravity problem
作者:
Herman Erlichson,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 59,
issue 8
页码: 728-733
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1119/1.16751
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
关键词: HISTORICAL ASPECTS;INVERSE PROBLEMS;CENTRAL POTENTIAL;CLASSICAL MECHANICS;GRAVITATION
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
In his letter of 6 January 1679/80 Hooke wrote to Newton ‘‘in truth I agree with You that the Explicating the Curve in which a body Descending to the Center of the Earth, would circumgyrate were a Speculation of noe Use yet’’ [TheCorrespondenceofIsaacNewton, edited by H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1960), Vol. 2, p. 309]. In these words, Hooke referred to a hypothetical problem which he was discussing in a correspondence with Newton. The problem was that of determining the orbit of a body moving inside a narrow cut made centrally across the Earth. This was perhaps the very first inverse central force problem to be attacked by Newton. Newton seems to have used his instantaneous impulse technique to provide a drawing of a solution that was almost exact. This paper explores this fascinating early solution of an inverse central force problem.
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