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Who was the first person to intuitively explain why gravity weakens by the square of the distance? [duplicate]
the surface area of a sphere is 4pir^2 and when you increase it the energy disperses by the square. Who was the first person to realize this?
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Robert Hooke and the Inverse Square Law
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borel, emile, 1922, l'espace et le temps, paris: alcan
there is a claim that Robert Hooke discovered an inverse square relation of gravitating bodied prior Isaac Newton, who later applied it more ...
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Why is Mendeleev credited with the discovery of the periodic table much more often than Meyer?
The question "Why do we learn little about Mendeleev when compared to other science figures?" let me ask: Why do we learn next to nothing about Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) who in parallel to ...
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Did Feynman develop QED based on Stueckelberg's manuscript?
I found some rumors on the internet regarding Stückelbergs manuscript and it's role for the development of QED.
In a comment on here somebody writes:
Crease and Mann say in their book The Second ...
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How scientifically valid were Galileo's heliocentric arguments?
As far as I know, while Galileo's hypothesis about the tides was wrong, his discovery of the phases of Venus while passing the sun should have been sufficient to leave the geocentric crystal spheres ...
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Did the Idea of Universal Gravitation predate Newton?
"Baba wrote over 60 books, almost everyone on a different topic, writing on issues from astronomy, identified stars that European scientists technology could not discover until the late 1800s, ...
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What made Newton realize that the law of gravitation was 'universal'? [duplicate]
Newton's law of gravitation operative near the earth is the same law causes the earth and the other planets to go around the sun and other heavenly phenomena. Was it a giant leap of faith by Newton or ...
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Who first derived $a =v^2/r$
This is a basic formula in mechanics, which determines the acceleration of a particle performing uniform circular motion.
By who first derived it? In Newton's Principa, what one can find is that
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Is Coulomb's law the earliest mathematical formula describing electricity?
Is Coulomb's law the earliest formal equation of electricity?
Before Coulomb, many scientists and engineers conducted experiments of electricity.
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Is it true that Newton used the gedankenexperiment of a cannonball revolving around the earth to find the inverse square law of gravity?
I have often heared that Newton compared the centripetal acceleration of an (imaginary) cannonball revolving around the earth just above the surface with the centripetal acceleration of the moon and ...
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