 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1838 - 308 pàgines
...room for twenty years, without losing any sensible weight. VI. IMPENETRABILITY. Bv this term we mean that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Illustration 1. If a piece of wood, or metal, occupy a certain space, before any thing else can... | |
 | Golding Bird - 1839 - 458 pàgines
...its action. More water is then pumped into the already-filled vessel ; and, in consequence of the law that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same instant, something must yield ; and as the piston is the most moveable part of the apparatus, it is... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pàgines
...meant by impenetrability ? It is that property which all bodies have, of occupying a certain space, so that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. If I put a spoon into a glass of water, what takes place ? The water will run over to leave a... | |
 | Golding Bird - 1848 - 446 pàgines
...action. More water is then pumped into the already -filled vessel ; and, in consequence of the law that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same instant, something must yield ; and as the piston is the most movable part of the npparatus, it is... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pàgines
...that property by virtue of which matter occupies space. The first great axiom of physical science, that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time, is the ordinary mode of expressing this property. If three pennies are placed closely together,... | |
 | Alfred White Sprague - 1856 - 414 pàgines
...a more convincing proof of its materiality than any previously offered. It is a property of matter that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. To this proposition air conforms as strictly as lead or water. Attempt to force these into a... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pàgines
...circumstances? Is ic not a necessary truth, that a proposition and its contradictory can never both be true ; that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time; that equals of the same are equal to each other; that two straight lines cannot enclose a space;... | |
 | S. M. Saxby - 1862 - 200 pàgines
...and heat — (mechanical because there is no chemical change to be produced) ; but as it is an axiom that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same moment, it is, therefore, natural to infer that if a piece of metal or water can receive a large accession... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pàgines
...that property by virtue of which matter occupies space. The first great axiom of physical science, that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time, is the ordinary mode of expressing this property. If three pennies are placed closely together,... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1860 - 868 pàgines
...having been observed in connection with a number of such individual things, generalized and formalized into abstract propositions or principles, whose truth...own self-evidencing light. Space and time indeed are sui generis. Body perceived in space, and events in time, may first direct the attention of the mind... | |
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Impenetrability, — which signifies that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. 
