Event

Graduate Student Seminar - Vladmir Sicca

Friday, November 24, 2017 12:00
Burnside Hall Graduate Lounge, BURN 1024/1025, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA


This Friday Vladmir Sicca will tell us about Kepler's laws of planetary motion. See you there!

 

Abstract:

Kepler's three laws of planetary motion were one of the motivations for Newton's Law of Gravitation and the development of Calculus. But, reversing the chronology, could Johannes, a motivated first year student, prove Kepler's laws by the end of his first Calculus course? In this pizza talk we will show that the answer is yes and, if time permits, discuss some of the symmetries that arise from the problem.

 

 

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