The Saros cycle: obtaining eclipse periodicity from Newton's laws
The Saros cycle has been known since antiquity and refers to the periodicity of eclipses. It is the least common multiple of three periods: the synodic, the draconic, and the anomalistic months. We show how to obtain these periods from Newton's laws with a precision greater than 0.02% using onl...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Física
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172009000100003&lng=en&tlng=en |