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... Earth's centre . Two other Aristotelian viewpoints were : that a body moving at con- stant speed required a continuous force acting on it and that force must be applied by contact rather than inter- action or force at a distance . These ...
... Earth's centre . Two other Aristotelian viewpoints were : that a body moving at con- stant speed required a continuous force acting on it and that force must be applied by contact rather than inter- action or force at a distance . These ...
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... Earth's surface acceleration g with the R3 / T2 ratio for the planets , a formula for the ratio of the Sun's mass , Ms , to Earth's mass , ME , was obtained in terms of known quantities , RE being the radius of the Earth's orbit : Ms ME ...
... Earth's surface acceleration g with the R3 / T2 ratio for the planets , a formula for the ratio of the Sun's mass , Ms , to Earth's mass , ME , was obtained in terms of known quantities , RE being the radius of the Earth's orbit : Ms ME ...
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... EARTH'S SURFACE More than 300 years ago Galileo , in studying how things fall toward the Earth , discovered that the motion is one of constant acceleration . He was able to show that the distance a falling body travels from rest in this ...
... EARTH'S SURFACE More than 300 years ago Galileo , in studying how things fall toward the Earth , discovered that the motion is one of constant acceleration . He was able to show that the distance a falling body travels from rest in this ...
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