Book
On the Motion of Bodies by Impact
- Published
- 1703
- Genre
- Science/Math
A mathematical study of collisions in which Huygens develops rules describing what happens when moving bodies strike one another. Using principles including relative motion, he analyzes collisions between bodies of different masses and speeds and establishes important results that contributed to the development of classical mechanics.
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