Elementary Text-book of Physics

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J. Wiley and sons, 1888 - 527 páginas
 

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Página 34 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Página 74 - ... that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Página 33 - Lex I Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus illud a viribus impressis cogitur statum suum mutare.
Página 131 - Therefore the specific gravity of a solid or a liquid body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water...
Página 73 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that varies directly as the product of the masses of the particles and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Página 65 - Since then the finite impulse given by an impulsive force may be supposed to be made up of an infinite number of infinitely small impulses, we may simplify our first notion of the mode of action of a force (Art.

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