Kepler's laws without calculus

2018/03/19 by Unruh, William G
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.06770

Abstract

Kepler's laws are derived from the inverse square law without the use of calculus and are simplified over previous such derivations.

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