Mémoire sur la resistance des fluides avec la solution du problème ballistique
Year of Conception: June 1764
Year of Writing: January-April 1765
Year of Publication: 1765/1767
Subject: Ballistics
Publication: Mémoire sur la resistance des fluides avec la solution du problème ballistique. Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1765/1767, 102-188.(1)
Description:
In response to a paper
by Euler and a recent book by Robins, both on ballistics, Lambert tackles the same problem from a more
practical angle, deriving solutions that are easier to calculate and
thus more useful in practice.
Reviews: ADB 1768, 224-225(6)