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Re: [Phys-l] Lagrange points



Slight correction:


Singer and progressive activist Joan Baez is his cousin and her father, physicist Albert Baez, was his uncle.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez

bc's favo: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html

Crack pot index

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html




On 2009, Dec 04, , at 15:04, chuck britton wrote:

This Baez dude's sister was (is) sorta cool and I've enjoyed talks by
his father at Science Teacher conferences.


At 10:43 AM -0700 12/4/09, John Denker wrote:
Here's a nice overview of Lagrange points, including the
IPS (inter-planetary superhighway) and other applications:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/lagrange.html

As previously mentioned, there is a ton of good mathematical
physics stuff on that site: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/

Baez links to Lagrange's original writeup, and to a nice
modern analysis:
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lagrange.html
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lagrange.pdf
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