You're showing your age, that is the problem in the first edition. It
is now problem 26 in chapter 7.
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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Leigh Palmer
| Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:08 AM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Help on a problem from Goldstein
|
|
| Problem 13 from Chapter 6 of Goldstein's "Classical Mechanics" reads:
|
| Show that the relativistic motion of a particle in an attractive
| inverse square law of force is a precessing ellipse. Compute the
| precession of the perihelion of Mercury resulting from this
| effect. ( The answer, about 7" per century, is much smaller than
| the actual precession of 40" per century which can be accounted
| for correctly only by general relativity.)
|
| Can someone kickstart my brain with a hint as to what
| approach I should consider to solve this problem?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Leigh
|
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