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  2. Robert Hooke - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ... In physics, Hooke inferred that gravity obeys an inverse square law and arguably was the first ... Hooke originated the theory of a ...

  3. Corpuscular theory of light - Wikipedia

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    Robert Boyle. MacIntosh, J.J. 2010. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. YouTube video. Physics - Newton's corpuscular theory of light - Science. elearnin. Uploaded 5 Jan 2013. Robert Hooke's Critique of Newton's Theory of Light and Colors (delivered 1672) Robert Hooke. Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society, vol. 3 (London: 1757), pp ...

  4. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, F s = kx, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and x is small compared to the total possible deformation of the spring.

  5. History of gravitational theory - Wikipedia

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    In 1679, Robert Hooke wrote to Isaac Newton of his hypothesis concerning orbital motion, which partly depends on an inverse-square force. [ 94 ] [ k ] In 1684, both Hooke and Newton told Edmond Halley that they had proven the inverse-square law of planetary motion, in January and August, respectively. [ 96 ]

  6. Newton-Hooke priority controversy for the inverse square law

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    Robert Hooke published his ideas about the "System of the World" in the 1660s, when he read to the Royal Society on March 21, 1666, a paper "concerning the inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle", and he published them again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to "An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations". [6]

  7. Inverse-square law - Wikipedia

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    In 1663–1664, the English scientist Robert Hooke was writing his book Micrographia (1666) in which he discussed, among other things, the relation between the height of the atmosphere and the barometric pressure at the surface. Since the atmosphere surrounds the Earth, which itself is a sphere, the volume of atmosphere bearing on any unit area ...

  8. Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1660 – Robert Hooke: Hooke's law; 1662 – Robert Boyle: Boyle's law; 1663 – Otto von Guericke: first electrostatic generator; 1676 – Ole Rømer: Rømer's determination of the speed of light traveling from the moons of Jupiter. 1678 – Christiaan Huygens mathematical wave theory of light, published in his Treatise on Light

  9. Constitutive equation - Wikipedia

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    The first constitutive equation (constitutive law) was developed by Robert Hooke and is known as Hooke's law.It deals with the case of linear elastic materials.Following this discovery, this type of equation, often called a "stress-strain relation" in this example, but also called a "constitutive assumption" or an "equation of state" was commonly used.