Planetary Motions: A Historical Perspective

by Norriss S. Hetherington

Book Overview

Students in an introductory physics class learn a variety of different, and seemingly unconnected, concepts. Gravity, the laws of motion, forces and fields, the mathematical nature of the science - all of these are ideas that play a central role in understanding physics. And one thing that connects all of these physical concepts is the impetus the great scientists of the past had to develop them - the desire to understand the motion of the planets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031333241X
• ISBN13: 9780313332418
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 10.5"