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... rotation . It is proportional to the sum obtained by multiplying the weight of each particle of the body by the square of its distance from the axis of rotation . Moments of inertia of bodies of common geo- metric shapes are given in ...
... rotation . It is proportional to the sum obtained by multiplying the weight of each particle of the body by the square of its distance from the axis of rotation . Moments of inertia of bodies of common geo- metric shapes are given in ...
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... rotation of Mercury . Early studies of surface fea- tures and rotation period . In the late 1960s dramatic new developments in the study of Mercury occurred . In order to understand these developments it is first necessary to consider ...
... rotation of Mercury . Early studies of surface fea- tures and rotation period . In the late 1960s dramatic new developments in the study of Mercury occurred . In order to understand these developments it is first necessary to consider ...
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... rotation . The first hint that something was amiss in the view of a synchronously rotating Mercury came in 1962 , when the first successful detection of radio emission from Mercury was made at the University of Michigan . Mercury cannot ...
... rotation . The first hint that something was amiss in the view of a synchronously rotating Mercury came in 1962 , when the first successful detection of radio emission from Mercury was made at the University of Michigan . Mercury cannot ...
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