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Simple mappings in mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Drago Bajc
Drago Bajc*
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Pedagoška fakulteta Maribor, Koroška c, 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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Consider the motion of a particle of unit mass acted upon by a homogeneous, central, conservative force f(r), where r is the distance between the centre of force and the particle. In this connection, homogeneity means the following property of the force: there exists a constant α such that for every c

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 83 , Issue 498 , November 1999 , pp. 421 - 425
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1999

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