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The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Book by I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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The Cambridge Companion to
NEWTON

Edited by

I. Bernard Cohen
Harvard University

and

George E. Smith
Tufts University

FIGURES
2.1 Newton's parallelogram rule for motions
produced by impulsive forces. page 		66
2.2 The area law for uniform rectilinear motion. 71
2.3 Newton's polygonal path (from the first edition
of the Principia, 1687). 		71
2.4 The trajectory of a moving body that has received
a blow or has been struck by an impulsive force. 		77
3.1 A particle at A rotates uniformly in a circle AD
constrained by a string attached to the center C,
the center of the circle. 		89
3.2 A polygon AB, BC, etc. is inscribed in a circle
of radius R. 		90
3.3 A particle ...











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