Dynamics
Part IB Advanced Physics Course
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History of Dynamics
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Precession of the earth
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Planetary dynamics
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Harrison's clocks
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Anecdotes
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Gravitational Slingshot
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Voyager
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Lagrange Points
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Rigid bodies
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2000 Lecture notes
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Anecdotes
Remember the last one pound note?
Isaac Newton is on the back, and an artist has rendered a planetary diagram next to him. What's wrong with this picture?
Answer:
They've put the sun at the centre of the ellipse!
David J.C. MacKay
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