Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun

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A typical little gem from Feynman - By: Andy Dingley, 15 Jun 2002
In his usual style, Feynman teaches us not only Newtonian & Keplerian orbital mechanics, but he does it in a new & amusing manner. Most importantly, in the broader view, he reinforces one of his greates tlessons of his teaching career - there's no single "right way" to prove, demonstrate or teach something. We alll (nearly alll ?) learn orbital mechanics through calculus. It's not a visual nor intuitive way of doing it, & it's a hard slog. Feynman's (actuallly it's probably Newton's) method does it through simple plane geometry that the ancient Greeks would understand.

The authors are to be congratulated on dusting off these lecture notes & presenting them so well packaged. They're well presented, accessible, & given just the right amount of background context.

Feynman fans will like this book anyway, but it's also a good taster for Feynman's style that any child studying GCSE applied maths or mechanics could understand.

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