The Inverse Cube Force Law
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Newton's Principia is famous for its investigations of the inverse square force law for gravity. But in this book Newton also did something that remained little-known until fairly recently. He figured out what kind of central force exerted upon a particle can rescale its angular velocity by a constant factor without affecting its radial motion. This turns out to be a force obeying an inverse cube law! Here we discuss this and some other interesting features of the inverse cube force law.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Baez, John C.
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7158336145
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