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Long-distance free fall
- Source :
- The Physics Teacher. March, 1999, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p166, 2 p.
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- It took the devil 9 days to fall to hell in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' so a physics student can use Newtonian laws of motion to calculate the distance between earth and hell, assuming hell is not at the center of the earth. The distance is found to be 22.5 times the distance between the earth and the moon. This is significantly larger than Milton's value of 3 times the radius of the earth.
Details
- ISSN :
- 0031921X
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- The Physics Teacher
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.54250731