From Kepler's laws, so-called, to universal gravitation: Empirical factors

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis A. Wilson
1959 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 610-610
Author(s):  
Jacob Neuberger

2021 ◽  
Vol 2081 (1) ◽  
pp. 012012
Author(s):  
P N Antonyuk

Abstract Everyone knows that the inverse square law follows from Kepler’s third law. Let us prove more: the law of universal gravitation follows from Kepler’s third law.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Brent Lee Jarvis

Newton Generalized Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion when he Developed his Laws of Universal Gravitation. Additional Generalizations are Submitted and an Auspicious Unified Model that can Be Tested Experimentally is Disclosed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (554) ◽  
pp. 270-279
Author(s):  
Luis Blanco ◽  
María García-García ◽  
Joaquín Gutíerrez ◽  
Andrea Rios

In this survey we give very simple proofs of Kepler's Laws and other facts about central force fields using only Newton's second law, Newton's law of universal gravitation, basic notions of vector calculus, and an elementary double integral.Hopefully, this article will help undergraduate students of mathematics and engineering who wish to understand these fundamental scientific discoveries.In many textbooks (see, for instance, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), Kepler's Laws are obtained using conservation of energy and angular momentum, differential equations, mobile reference systems, or notions not so well-defined such as differentials or ‘infinitesimal elements’. Some of the arguments appear to be rather involved if one is not accustomed to them, whereas the proof of Kepler's Laws may actually be obtained from quite simple facts.


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