 Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between...  A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy - Pàgina 147per Robert Stawell Ball - 1908 - 506 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - 1911 - 698 pàgines
...body. 8. The force of attraction between two bodies, such as the earth and the sun, varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. 9. If an object is whirled in a circle at the end of a string, the tension or... | |
 | Edwin Henry Barton - 1911 - 568 pàgines
...particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other.' It is now very questionable whether the law of inverse squares holds... | |
 | Victor Dean Hawkins - 1912 - 214 pàgines
...able to state some of the laws by which it acts: "The attraction between two bodies varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers of mass." The laws of weight are derived from this: — 1. The weight... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Martin - 1912 - 244 pàgines
...variable. The law of variation is expressed as follows: The attraction of two spheres varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers. Thus, to calculate the work done in lifting a sphere whose weight at... | |
 | GEORGE H. LEPPER - 1912 - 168 pàgines
...consistent with the supposition that the body occupying the focus attracts the circulating one "directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the intervening distance." He went even farther, and showed that no otherwise conditioned force would answer.... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - 376 pàgines
...two bodies in the universe tend to move towards each other with an acceleration that varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance apart : " The business of physical science," writes Mach, " is . . . the abstract quantitative... | |
 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - 1913 - 394 pàgines
...each other are drawn together with DUCTlONl NATURE OF CHEMICAL AFFINITY 9 a force which is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. This is the cause of weight, in which the earth as the larger body seems to... | |
 | United States. Defense Intelligence Agency - 1967 - 266 pàgines
...Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. 2. (motion) (1) Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion... | |
 | United States. Army Topographic Command - 1969 - 292 pàgines
...Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. 2. (motion) (1) Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion... | |
 | 1901 - 518 pàgines
...gravitation. It reads as follows: "Every body attracts every other body with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance by which they are separated." In other words, the earth is attracting every star in the universe,... | |
| |
