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In the grip of the distant universe : the science of inertia /

This is a book about the history of the science of inertia. Nobody denies the existence of the forces of inertia, but they are branded as "fictitious" because they do not fit smoothly into modern physics. Named by Kepler and given mathematical form by Newton, the force of inertia remains a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graneau, Peter
Otros Autores: Graneau, Neal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Ch. 1. All matter instantaneously senses all other matter in the universe -- ch. 2. Johannes Kepler -- The astronomer who coined the word inertia -- ch. 3. Free Fall -- A hardly believable story of science -- ch. 4. The Cartesian interlude -- a novel cosmology -- ch. 5. Newton's force of inertia -- the basis of dynamics -- ch. 6. A century of consolidation -- the early practitioners of Newtonian dynamics -- ch. 7. Mach's magic principle -- the unique inertial system -- ch. 8. Albert Einstein -- inertia obscured by gravitation -- ch. 9. Inducing inertia -- an electromagnetic analogy -- ch. 10. Retarded action at a distance -- a short lived misnomer -- ch. 11. Clock confusion in the 20th century -- the connection between inertia and timekeeping -- ch. 12. Machian inertia and the isotropic universe -- a new force law. 
520 |a This is a book about the history of the science of inertia. Nobody denies the existence of the forces of inertia, but they are branded as "fictitious" because they do not fit smoothly into modern physics. Named by Kepler and given mathematical form by Newton, the force of inertia remains aloof because it has no obvious local cause. At the end of the 19th century, Ernst Mach bravely claimed that the inertia of an object was the result of its instantaneous interaction with all matter in the universe. Many other well-known physicists, including Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes and Einstein, are show. 
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