Index
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Abbott, Edwin
Abe, Michio
acceleration vector
action-at-a-distance
Agnew, Ralph Palmer
Agrippa, Henry
air drag, linearw
quadratic
analytic continuation
Apollo
Archimedes’ principle
Aristotle
astronomical unit
asymptotic expansion. See also Stirling’s formula
ballistics: with air drag; no air
drag
baseball
Bashworth, Francis
BASIC
Bellman, Richard
Bentley, Richard
Bernoulli, James
Bernoulli, Johann
Bethe, Hans
Beukers, Frits
Big Bang
Big Dig
binary numbers
Binet, Jacques
binomial: coefficient; theorem
blackbody radiation
black hole. See Michell, John
Bloch, Felix
body-diagonal resistance (of resistor cube). See also tesseract
Boltzman, Ludwig
Bouwkamp, Christofel
Boys, C.V.
brachistochrone. See also gravity: tunnel
Brooks, Rowland. See also BSST
Brown, Robert
Brownian motion
BSST
Burger, Dionys
Callisto (moon of Jupiter)
capacitor
Carroll, Lewis
Cavendish, Henry
center of mass
central force
centripetal law (of wandering)
chain rule (of calculus)
Challenger (space shuttle)
coefficient of restitution
Columbia (spaceship)
commutation (of two limit operations)
complex zeros. See Riemann hypothesis
conservation laws: electric charge,
energy,
momentum
constraints (vertical and horizontal),
Conway, John
Crab Nebula
Crofton, Morgan
curvature (radius of),
dal Monte, Guidobaldo
Dante
Darwin, Charles
De Moivre, Abraham
derivative parabola
Descartes, René. See vortex hypothesis
diffusion coefficient
dimensional analysis
Dirac, Paul
distribution function
See also
probability density function
drag coefficient
drunkard’s walk. See also
gambler’s ruin
Dudeney, Henry
Duijvestijn, Adrianus
dwarf star
Dyson, Freeman,
Eagle (lunar lander)
Earth: age of; atmosphere of,
density of,
in freshman
physics; interior
of; mass of; orbital
speed of; radius of
eccentricity (of elliptical orbit)
Einstein, Albert
Electronics Workbench (EWB)
energy: kinetic,
potential
equation of state
Euler, Leonhard
expected value
exponential integral
Farley, R. M.
Feynman, Richard
Fezandié, Clement
Fibonacci
Foucault, Léon
Fourier: series,
transforms
fourth dimension. See
also tesseract
Frost, Robert
functional equation
fusion (nuclear),
Galileo,
gambler’s ruin
gamma function
Gamow, George
Gauss, C. F.
geometric series
geostationary
Gernsback, Hugo
Girard, Albert
Glaisher, J. W. L.
Goddard, Robert
golden ratio
gravitational binding energy
gravitational contraction
gravity: acceleration of
onstant; inside
spherical cavity;
inside spherical shell,
of circular ring;
inverse square law of
of spherical shell,
tunnel
universal constant of,
See also Newton
grazing orbit,
Hageman, Samuel Miller
Halley, Edmond
Hamming, Richard
Hardy, G. H.
Heaven. See Hell
Heaviside, Oliver
Heinlein, Robert
Hell (falling into)
Hesiod
Hilbert, David
Hoar, Roger Sherman. See Farley
Hofstader, Robert
Homer
Hooke, Robert
impedance
impulse function. See Dirac
inductor
infinite: honeycomb circuit
hotel; ladder circuits,
; regress; square
grid; triangular grid
integrating factor
inverse square law. See gravity
isochronous. See also gravity
tunnel
iterative. See recursion
Jacobian transformation
Jeffreys, Harold
Jupiter
Kalman, Dan
Kaluza, Theodor
Kant, Emmanuel
Keill, John
Kelvin, Lord
Kepler’s laws (of planetary motion)
Kerouac, Jack
Keynes, Lord
King, Clarence
Kirchhoff’s laws
Klein, Oskar
Kluyver, J. C.
Laplace transform
Lavatelli, Leo
laws of motion: first; second
laws (physically plausible)
Leaning Tower of Pisa (experiment)
Lehmann, Inge
Leibniz, Gottfried
Leibniz’s formula (for differentiating an
integral),
Littlewood, John
Loyd, Sam
Lucretius
Luzin, Nikolai,
Mach, Ernst
Maclaurin, Colin
Mailer, Norman
Mathematica,
MATLAB
Maxwell, J. C.
Michell, John
Milton, John
Mohrovičić, Andrija
moment of inertia
momentum
monotonicity law. See also
Rayleigh
Monte Carlo
Moon: density of; mass of
orbital speed of; test,
. See also Newton
Morón, Zbigniew
Munk, Max,
Nahin, Pat
neutron star
Newton’s experiment
Newton, Isaac. See also gravity; laws of
motion; superb theorems
Newton-Raphson formula
Nicholas of Cusa
Niven, Larry,
Ohm’s law
oil drop experiment (Millikan)
Oldham, Richard
optimal launch angle
Pascal, Blaise
Pearson, Karl
Pendray, George
Perrin, Jean
Pisano, Leonardo. See Fibonacci
polar coordinates
position vector
pressure (at the center of the Earth),
. See also static equilibrium
Principia,. See also Newton; superb
theorems
probability density function
(exponential);
(Gaussian); (nearest
neighbor); (Rayleigh),
; (uniform)
product rule (for differentials)
proof (by contradiction)
(deductive and inductive)
pulsar
Pythagorean theorem
quilting
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
random variable
random walk; geometric,
golden
Rayleigh, Lord. See also
monotonicity law; probability density
function
recursion
resistor cube
Reynolds, Osborne
Riemann hypothesis. See also zeta
function
Roche limit
Ross, Ronald
Saturn. See also Roche limit; tidal
force
Schawlow, Arthur
schematic capture
shock wave
shot-put
simple harmonic motion
Smith, Cedric. See also BSST
Sputnik
static equilibrium (differential equation of),
. See also pressure (at
the center of the Earth)
Stefan, Josef
stochastic process
Stokes, George
Stone, Arthur. See also BSST
Sprague, Roland
Stirling’s formula
Strutt, John William. See Rayleigh
Sun: age of; falling into,
mass of; energy out of,
; radius of
superb theorems
supernova
superposition
symmetry
Taurus (constellation)
temperature of Hell joke
terminal speed
tesseract
Thomson, William. See Kelvin, Lord
tic-tac-toe
tidal force. See also Roche
limit
topology (of electric circuits)
See also wire connection list
torque
Torricelli, Evangelista
transcendental equation
transition probability
Trier, Peter
trivial zeros. See Riemann hypothesis
tunneling time. See also gravity: tunnels
Tutte, William.
See also BSST
Ulam, S. M.
Vee, Bobby
velocity vector
Venezian, Giulio
Verne, Jules
von Helmholtz, Hermann
von Neumann, John
vortex hypothesis
Watson, G.N.
weight (of the planets)
Weinstock, Robert
Wells, H. G.
Wheatstone, Charles
white dwarf. See dwarf star
Wiechert, Emil
Wiener, Norbert
wire connection list. See also
topology
zeta function
z-transform