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Motion of a Particle Relative to the Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. W. Parsons*
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, The Univesity, Hull

Extract

Textbooks dealing with this topic are usually content to solve approximately the equations of motion for a particle moving under constant gravity g, using the fact that the angular velocity w of the Earth is small. (See A. S. Ramsey—Dynamics, Part II (§§4.6-4.74) or L. A. Pars—A Treatise on Analytical Dynamics § 10.10.) These equations of motion may be solved exactly, of course, without placing any restriction on w. The modified equations of motion for the particle moving in a medium offering resistance kv per unit mass, v being the velocity of the particle, may also be solved exactly.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1967

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