Lesson 09: InfoMall

Homework due before 6 a.m on Monday, March 17th, 1997
Either:

Place it in the SUBMIT folder in Priscilla on elvis.unl.edu
E-MAIL it to rfuller@unlinfo.unl.edu
SUBMIT it using this Web form

Searching the Textbook Trove.

The textbooks included in the Trove represent the views of more than 20 authors and about three different levels of textbooks.

Your Name:

You can use the search software of the InfoMall to find information related to a specific concept or word in physics.

Run a compound search on the InfoMall, using the two words "law" and "grav*" where the symbol * is a wild card symbol and stands for any letters, so that this search will find both gravity and gravitation. Have these two words appear in the same paragraph within three words of one another. [Note: the InfoMall software has a unusual way of counting hits so that each occurrence is counted, so finding both "law" and "grav*" in the same sentences is counted as two hits.]

Select only hits in the Textbook Trove

Find three different approaches to Newton's Universal Law of Gravity.

A historical discussion:
Paste a paragraph of a historical perspective here. Give the complete citation.
The equation and an explanation of its symbols:
Paste a paragraph here. Give the complete citation. Use a different source than for part (a)
A derivation of the gravitational potential energy:
Paste a paragraph here. Give the complete citation. Use a different source than for parts (a) or (b).

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