Talk:Newton's sine-square law of air resistance
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- In 1752, 25-years after Newton's death, the French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert attempted to use the mathematical methods of the day to describe and quantify the forces acting on a body moving relative to a fluid. It proved impossible and d'Alembert was forced to conclude that he could not devise a mathematical method to describe the force on a body, even though practical experience showed such a force always exists. This has become known as D'Alembert's paradox.
Dolphin (t) 12:45, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- I inserted the above paragraph into the article on 5 August. I changed the year from 1752 to 1744. The source (Anderson) states that d’Alembert’s initial work on the subject was in 1744; he encountered the problem again in another paper published in 1752; and a third time in a paper published in 1768. Dolphin (t) 02:39, 5 August 2022 (UTC)