A distinguished physicist takes an enlightening look at three scientists whose work unlocked many mysteries: Galileo, the first to examine the process of free and restricted fall; Newton, originator of a universal force; and Einstein, who proposed that gravity is no more than the curvature of the four-dimensional space-time continuum.
Author(s): George Gamow
Edition: Dover Ed
Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Commentary: OCR done with tessaract
Pages: 152
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
The Science Study Series
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1 How things Fall
Chapter 2 Apple and the Moon
Chapter 3 Calculus
Chapter 4 Planetary Orbits
Chapter 5 The Earth as Spinning Top
Chapter 6 The Tides
Chapter 7 Triumphs of Celestial Mechanics
Chapter 8 Escaping Gravity
Chapter 9 Einstein's Theory of Gravity
Chapter 10 Unsolved Problems of Gravity
Index
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