Record

RefNoAP/81/23
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished appendix, 'Detailed calculation of the advance of perihelion of a planet moving in the equatorial plane, on the basis of Whitehead's theory of gravitation' by C B Rayner
CreatorRayner; C B (1955)
Date[1955]
DescriptionRayner presents equations relating to the 'orbits of test-particles in the equatorial plane' and 'the advance of perihelion of planetary orbits.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Note on front reads 'For deposit in the RS Archives'.

Subject: Physics / Astronomy

The affiliated paper was published in volume 232 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A as 'The effects of rotation of the central body on its planetary orbits, after the Whitehead theory of gravitation'.
Extent11p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1955.0206
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