Crossword clues for newtonian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Newtonian \New*to"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's ``Principia,'' to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the mathematical theory of universal gravitation.
Newtonian telescope (Astron.), a reflecting telescope, in which rays from the large speculum are received by a plane mirror placed diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace.
Newtonian theory of light. See Note under Light.
Newtonian \New*to"ni*an\, n. A follower of Newton.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Newtonian refers to the work of Isaac Newton, in particular:
- Newtonian mechanics, i.e. classical mechanics
- Newtonian telescope, a type of reflecting telescope
- Newtonian cosmology
- Newtonian dynamics
- Newtonianism, the philosophical principle of applying Newton's methods in a variety of fields
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Newtonian fluid, a fluid that flows like water—its shear stress is linearly proportional to the velocity gradient in the direction perpendicular to the plane of shear
- Non-Newtonian fluids, in which the viscosity changes with the applied shear force
Usage examples of "newtonian".
If you throw a baseball, Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity can be used to predict where it will land, and the answers will be different, but the differences will be so slight that they are generally beyond our capacity to detect experimentally.
Kant enabled him to think that he had succeeded in establishing and explaining the certitude and incorrigibility of Euclidean geometry, simple arithmetic, and Newtonian physics.
It was a simple, geocentric, Copernican model, based on Euclidean geometry and Newtonian mechanics.
Newtonian mechanic, Laplace was profoundly influenced by the power of Newtonian law.
In nonrelativistic or Newtonian mechanics, the two-body problem was disposed of three hundred years ago by Newton.
Near them is one of the old-fashioned orangeries, with a great deal of wall and very little glass, and near it stands the sundial of Newtonian fame.
The former appeals to our intuition about gravity in the traditional Newtonian framework, whereas the latter expresses a reformulation of gravity in terms of curved space.
A double-bind game is a game with self-contradictory rules, a game doomed to perpetual self-frustration--like trying to invent a perpetual-motion machine in terms of Newtonian mechanics, or trying to trisect any given angle with a straightedge and compass.
Newtonian mechanics, or trying to trisect any given angle with a straightedge and compass.
Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three inborn fears-of falling, snakes, and the dark-corresponding respectively to the dangers posed by Newtonian gravitation to tree-dwellers, by our ancient enemies the reptiles, and by mammalian nocturnal predators, which must have been particularly terrifying for the visually oriented primates.
Don't think of that block of lead in Newtonian termsmore mass, therefore a greater attractive force.
Like the Newtonian mechanics of an earlier age, they were just approximations that would be repealed with the development of more precise theoretical models and improved measurement techniques, similar to the way in which careful experiments with light waves had demonstrated the untenability of classical physics and resulted in the formulation of special relativity.
A lot of other people, among them the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz and the French mathematician Henri Poincare, were working on the same idea, because electro-magnetism didn't entirely agree with Newtonian mechanics.
Powerful selective forces were at work to evolve organisms with grace and agility, accurate binocular vision, versatile manipulative abilities, superb eye-hand coordination, and an intuitive grasp of Newtonian gravitation.
About midway through the list appeared, Theory of n-Spatial Geodesics as Applied to Newtonian Physics with a Special Discourse on Rho-Simplon Worm Lines.