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He has a convoluted (no pun intended) center of mass explanation that the equation does not describe, admits that this is incorrect, and then goes onto another incorrect explanation of a strange ellipse where there is another center of mass.

I've never been able to find a good explanation online, only in some older textbooks. I've begun to fear that there are few people who are able to read equations while the others interpret the explanations of those people, where then those same old explanations gradually mutate as they propagate without reference to their source. This Stanford lecture is the best I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rqJl7Rs6ps



If you could name those older textbooks I'd be very grateful...


"Harmonic analysis in phase space" by Folland who illustrates the Fourier Transform with physical applications.

"The Analytic Theory of Heat" Joseph Fourier who explains the realization at length.


Thanks!




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