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Answer: Copernicus postulated that Earth moves around the
Chapter 2, Problem 2E(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 2E
Copernicus postulated that Earth moves around the Sun (rather than the other way around), but he was troubled about the idea. What concepts of mechanics was he missing (concepts later introduced by Galileo and Newton) that would have eased his doubts?
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QUESTION:
Problem 2E
Copernicus postulated that Earth moves around the Sun (rather than the other way around), but he was troubled about the idea. What concepts of mechanics was he missing (concepts later introduced by Galileo and Newton) that would have eased his doubts?
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Solution
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The Copernicus postulate states that the earth moves around the sun rather than other way around. Which was contradicted to some extent.
This contradiction would have been eased for copernicus if he had used the concepts of galileo and newton like inertia , gravity and action reaction pair(Newton’s third law).