Physics 2210 Classical Mechanics and Math Methods

Instructors: Steven Pollock, Ana Maria Rey, and Rachel Pepper

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That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. - New York Times, 13 Jan 1920

Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error. - New York Times, 17 July 1969


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