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" It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth. If a... "
Elements of Applied Mathematics - Page 167
by Herbert E. Cobb - 1911 - 274 pages
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Text-book of Algebra: With Exercises for Secondary Schools and Colleges, Part 1

George Egbert Fisher, Isaac Joachim Schwatt - Algebra - 1898 - 714 pages
...known that the surface varies as the square of its edge ? 30. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square...of its distance from the center of the earth. If a body weighs 30 pounds on the surface of the earth (approximately 4000 miles from the center), what...
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Elements of Algebra with Exercises

George Egbert Fisher - Algebra - 1899 - 506 pages
...known that the surface varies as the square of its edge ? 22. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square...of its distance from the center of the earth. If a body weighs 30 pounds on the surface of the earth (approximately 4000 miles from the center), what...
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Secondary Algebra

George Egbert Fisher, Isaac Joachim Schwatt - Algebra - 1900 - 484 pages
...known that the surface varies as the square of its edge ? 15. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the centre of the earth. If a body weighs 30 pounds on the surface of the earth (approximately 4000 miles...
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Higher Algebra

George Egbert Fisher, Isaac Joachim Schwatt - Algebra - 1901 - 646 pages
...known that the surface varies as the square of its edge ? 22. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square...of its distance from the center of the earth. If a body weighs 30 pounds on the surface of the earth (approximately 4000 miles from the center), what...
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Complete Secondary Algebra

George Egbert Fisher - 1901 - 320 pages
...known that the surface varies as the square of its edge ? 15. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the centre of the earth. If a body weighs 30 pounds on the surface of the earth (approximately 4000 miles...
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Academic Algebra

William James Milne - Algebra - 1901 - 462 pages
...each other, what point of the stick rests on his shoulder ? 16. The weight of a body near the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth. If the radius of the earth is 4000 miles, what would be the weight of a 4-lb. brick at the distance of...
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Advanced Algebra for Colleges and Schools

William James Milne - Algebra - 1902 - 620 pages
...each other, what point of the stick rests on his shoulder ? 16. The weight of a body near the- earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth. If the radius of the earth is 4000 miles, what would be the weight of a 4-lb. brick at the distance of...
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Forty Lessons in Physics

Lynn Banks McMullen - Physics - 1906 - 474 pages
...mass of the body, are constant quantities. Hence, the weight of a body above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth. AO- OB $§!======— --0. EQUATION 19. (1) Let A and B (Fig. 67) represent unit masses at unit distance....
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Heat ; Combustion and Fuels ; Principles of the Gas Engine ; Automobile and ...

International Correspondence Schools - Heat-engines - 1907 - 456 pages
...in the spherical vessel. 23. Jutenslty of Radiation. — The intensity of radiant heat received by a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the source of heat. This is easily seen by a FIG. 2 FiG. 3 study of Fig. 3, in which a and b are two plates...
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Practical Elementary Algebra

Joseph Victor Collins - Algebra - 1908 - 442 pages
...will be the time of vibration there of a pendulum 10 in. long ? Use logarithms in calculation. 6. If the weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth, what will be the weight of an object that weighs 16 Ib. at sea level, 3963 mi. from the center, at...
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