Search results for "Gravitation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- dynamics and his law of universal gravitation to finally explain the motions of the planets. Newton also developed the reflecting telescope. ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- theories (for example, the statement of universal gravitation) share some of the features of metaphysical statements, and so cannot be directly verified ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- of Space] General Relativity and Gravitation 31 (1999): 1991–2000 ... initial singularity, a theory of quantum gravitation is needed. Understanding ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation. Translated by Henry L. Brose. New York: Oxford University Press, 1920. *Schlick, Moritz. Wittgenstein ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- in his discovery of the inverse square law of gravitation. Huygens, in his study of light, became intrigued with the regular figures of the crystals ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- Electrostatics is a branch of science that involves the investigation of phenomena related to what appear to be stationary electric charges. ...18 KB (2,558 words) - 16:05, 13 February 2024
- with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar. (Qtd. in Buckingham, 281-282) In the early twentieth century, Dickinson's ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- published in 1687, described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that exploits the rise and fall in sea levels due to the tides, or the movement ...18 KB (2,762 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2023
- ===Gravitation=== :Gravitational sliding: Plate motion is driven by ... years later during study of Himalayan gravitation, and seismic studies detected ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- by means of the concepts of the field theory of gravitation…. Even when considering tidal forces on planets, it is sufficient to use centers ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- doing calculations using Newton's law of gravitation discovered that if two bodies (such as the sun and the earth) are orbiting one another, there ...23 KB (3,520 words) - 08:42, 24 November 2022
- achievement.Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles ... * Weinberg, Steven. Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and applications ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- ** The Law of Gravitation ** The Relation of Mathematics to Physics ... * Feynman, Richard Phillips. Feynman Lectures on Gravitation. Boulder ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- * Three Hundred Years of Gravitation (with Werner Israel) (1989) ... * Hawking, S.W., and W. Israel (eds.). Three Hundred Years of Gravitation ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- about the effects of quantum mechanics on gravitation was socially constructed. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- his marriage. Having moved from "animal gravitation" to "animal magnetism," he announced his new theory in Sendschreiben an einen ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 16:24, 29 October 2022
- A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas, plasma, and dust, and dark matter.L.S ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases covering most of the Earth's land surface and that serves, or has the ...27 KB (4,112 words) - 15:59, 14 October 2022
- but to escape from Earth's gravitation altogether. Included as a thought-experiment is the idea of launching a rocket to the moon and igniting ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
