Galileo Galilei and motion : a reconstruction of 50 years of experiments and discoveries / Roberto Vergara Caffarelli.
Pubblicazione:
Bologna : Società italiana di fisica, c2009.
Descrizione fisica:
VII, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Note:
Con la trad. inglese della lettera di G. Galilei a Guidobaldo del Monte del 29 novembre 1602
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. Problems of chronology 2. Around 1590: the dynamics of the De motu 3. Le Mecaniche (1592-1600) 4. 1592-1610: The best eighteen years of my life 5. 1602: the theorem of chords and the isochronicity of pendulums. The letter to Guidobaldo del Monte 6. Before 1604: the law for falling bodies. Experimental results 7. Folio 107v: the experimental confirmation of the law of motion 8. Why 100 braccia in 5 seconds? 9. Before 1607: parabolic trajectories 10. Before 1610: the velocity acquired in descent is proportional to the square of the height 11. Before 1610: launching from the inclined plane without a straightener 12. The time taken to descend along inclined planes of equal height and the theorem of final velocity 13. Another comparison between two motions: free fall and descent along a plane. Difficulties due to the rolling of the sphere 14. Before 1606: experiments on a shipin uniform motion. Long before 1623: Galileo's principle of relativity 15. The laws of motion: Galileo announcesthem in the Dialogo (1632) and presents them in the Discorsi (1638) 16. Before 1610: the constant-flow chronograph 17: Galileo overcame the difficulty due to rolling by carrying out experiments with a new machine 18. The conception of Galilei's machine: the vertical plane 19. A description of Galilei's machine and of the experiments that can be carried out on it 20. Marin Mersenne: a man who wants to turn everything topsy-turvy 21. Conclusion. Appendix A: Solution to Newton's equation for motion with resistance proportional to velocity. Appendix B: The theory of violent motion according to Galileo. Appendix C: A body is faster than another when it travels the same space in less time. Appendix D: Study of the effect of rolling along a guide channel. Acknowledgements and thanks. Grants for reproductions
Shea, William R. 1937- Recensione].