What is a Newtonian system? The failure of energy conservation and determinism in supertasks

DOI10.1023/A:1005257429769zbMath1015.70005OpenAlexW2164975880MaRDI QIDQ1595316

John Earman, John D. Norton, Mark Bridger, Joseph S. Alper

Publication date: 31 October 2002

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005257429769

zbMATH Keywords

determinismconservation of energydiscontinuityNewton's impact lawNewton's second lawsupertaskreaction forcesd'Alembert principleLagrangian parameterNewton's third lawperfectly elastic collisionsunit point masses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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