Chapter 5: Key Words

You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • Woolsthorpe Manor
  • Cambridge University
  • Trinity College
  • Euclid of Alexandria
  • Robert Boyle
  • René Descartes
  • the calculus
  • annus mirabilis
  • Lucasian Chair
  • Stephen Hawking
  • reflecting telescope
  • Newtonian telescope
  • The Royal Society
  • Sir Edmond Halley
  • Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
    (the Principia)
  • Gottfried Leibniz
  • alchemy
  • Westminster Abbey
  • mass
  • weight
  • pound mass
  • pound force
  • prefixes (Table 4.1)
  • International System of Units (SI)
  • scalar
  • vector
  • magnitude
  • direction
  • position vector
  • velocity vector
  • speed
  • acceleration vector
  • centripetal acceleration
  • scientific notation
  • Newton’s three laws of motion
  • inertia
  • force
  • net force
  • action
  • reaction
  • acceleration due to gravity (“little g“)
  • inverse square law
  • Newton’s universal law of gravitation
  • universal gravitational constant (“big G“)
  • Albert Einstein
  • Kepler’s laws (derived by Newton)
  • center of mass
  • the law of ellipses
  • the law of equal areas
  • the harmonic law
  • Sir William Herschel
  • Carolyn Herschel
  • Sir John Herschel
  • John Couch Adams
  • Urbain Le Verrier
  • Percival Lowell
  • Clyde Tombaugh
  • error bar
  • Émilie du Châtelet
  • Voltaire
  • determinism
  • Francis Bacon
  • John Locke
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • David Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • The Enlightenment
  • The Age of Reason
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • empiricism
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