Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Volume 3Academic Press, 1992 - Physical sciences |
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... STARS The first test of Newtonian mechanics outside the solar system was the discovery of dynami- cally bound multiple star systems , first by Her- schel and later by Bessel and his school in the nineteenth century . The observation and ...
... STARS The first test of Newtonian mechanics outside the solar system was the discovery of dynami- cally bound multiple star systems , first by Her- schel and later by Bessel and his school in the nineteenth century . The observation and ...
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... star moves with respect to a background of more distant and perhaps more slowly moving stars , momentum is transferred from the moving star to the background . This results in slowing the star down , much like a viscosity . Hence , the ...
... star moves with respect to a background of more distant and perhaps more slowly moving stars , momentum is transferred from the moving star to the background . This results in slowing the star down , much like a viscosity . Hence , the ...
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... stars or visiting stars to describe their tran- sient appearances in the celestial sphere . One of the earliest systematic records of comets can be found in the Chinese astronomical history of 467 B.C. The historian Kou King - ting ...
... stars or visiting stars to describe their tran- sient appearances in the celestial sphere . One of the earliest systematic records of comets can be found in the Chinese astronomical history of 467 B.C. The historian Kou King - ting ...
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Guide to Using the Encyclopedia ix Cloud Physics | 353 |
Coal Geology | 371 |
Celestial Mechanics 1 Colin R Ward | 409 |
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