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1991 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Vector Algebra
Author : David M. Bressoud
Published in: Second Year Calculus
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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While the terminology of calculus that we have at hand is certainly sufficient to prove the converse of Theorem 1.3, namely, that Newton’s law of gravity implies that planets must move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus, this and other arguments we are to make will be greatly simplified if we adopt a language developed in the late nineteenth century, that of vector algebra.