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" ... directly proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. "
Henley's Encyclopædia of Practical Engineering and Allied Trades: A ... - Page 116
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Outlines of Astronomy

Arthur Searle - Astronomy - 1874 - 492 pages
...material object is constantly moving towards any other given material object with a quantity of motion directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, of the two objects considered. This law is too complex to be readily comprehended...
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The Unseen Universe: Or, Physical Speculations on a Future State

Balfour Stewart - Immortality - 1875 - 236 pages
...mechanics. He succeeded in showing that every mass of matter attracts every other mass with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and that this universal force accounts not only for Kepler's laws of planetary...
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The Unseen Universe, Or, Physical Speculations on a Future State

Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - Cosmology - 1875 - 274 pages
...mechanics. He succeeded in showing that every mass of matter attracts every other mass with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and that this universal force accounts not only for Kepler's laws of planetary...
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The Unseen Universe: Or, Physical Speculations on a Future State

Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 244 pages
...mechanics. He succeeded in showing that every mass of matter attracts every other mass with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and that this universal force accounts not only for Kepler's laws of planetary...
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The unseen universe; or, Physical speculations on a future state [by B ...

Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 270 pages
...mechanics. He succeeded in showing that every mass of matter attracts every other mass with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and that this universal force accounts not only for Kepler's laws of planetary...
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Potential and Its Application to the Explanation of Electrical Phenomena ...

Ottokar Tumlirz - Electrostatics - 1889 - 298 pages
...express the result by representing as the seat of electric force masses which exert force on each other proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance ? The dependence stated, of the force on the distance, does not appear from...
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Elementary Physical Geography

Ralph Stockman Tarr - Physical geography - 1895 - 574 pages
...a mutual attraction which we know as gravitation ; and the effect of this gravitative attraction is proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance. Every member of the solar system is exerting an attraction upon the earth....
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Elementary Physical Geography

Ralph Stockman Tarr - Physical geography - 1895 - 622 pages
...a mutual attraction which we know as gravitation; and the effect of this gravitative attraction is proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance. Every member of the solar system is exerting an attraction upon the earth....
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A Treatise on Physics: Dynamics and properties of matter, Volume 1

Andrew Gray - Dynamics - 1901 - 726 pages
...the discussions in chap, v., that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. There is thus only one constant k which gives in absolute units...
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Treatise on Physics, Volume 1

Andrew Gray - Dynamics - 1901 - 738 pages
...the discussions in chap, v., that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. There is thus only one constant k which gives in absolute units...
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