| William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...varying abundance is proportioned to the thirst of each. — Moseley. LESSON XVII.— TUESDAY. 1OBCE. Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion in bodies. Motion is change of position in space, and occupies time. The space moved tlfrough, compared... | |
| Augustus William Smith - Mechanics, Analytic - 1855 - 368 pages
...in fluid bodies. Hydrodynamics investigates the effects of forces on fluids when motion results.* 2. Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion. The consideration of the nature of force does not belong to the present subject. Mechanics is concerned... | |
| Augustus William Smith - Mechanics, Analytic - 1855 - 340 pages
...in fluid bodies. Hydrodynamics investigates the effects of forces on fluids when motion results.* 2. Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion. The consideration of the nature of force does not belong to the present subject. Mechanics is concerned... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...this varying abundance is proportioned to the thirst of each. — Moseley. LESSON XVII.— TUESDAY. Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion in bodies. Motion is change of position in space, and occupies time. The space moved through, compared... | |
| Augustus William Smith - Mechanics, Analytic - 1863 - 340 pages
...in fluid bodies. Hydrodynamics investigates the effects of forces on fluids when motion results.* 2. Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion. The consideration of the nature of force does not belong to the present subject. Mechanics is concerned... | |
| Science - 1877 - 162 pages
...motion. It is its inertia with reference to motion in a specified direction toward the centre. If only that which produces or tends to produce motion or change of motion is force, then there is no such force as "centrifugal force;" for the only motions that a body moving... | |
| Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-engines - 1878 - 518 pages
...We may add to these principles a definition of a force, which is equally and absolutely complete : force is that which produces, or tends to produce, motion, or change of motion, in bodies. It is measured statically by the weight that will counterpoise it, or by the pressure which... | |
| Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-engines - 1891 - 912 pages
...We may add to these principles a definition of a force, which is equally and absolutely complete : Force is that which produces, or tends to produce, motion, or change of motion, in bodies. It is measured statically by the weight that will counterpoise it, or by the pressure which... | |
| Andrew Jamieson - Mechanics, Applied - 1892 - 300 pages
...Elementary Applied Mechanics with definitions and with units of force, work and power.* Force is any cause which produces, or tends to produce, motion or change of motion in the matter upon which it acts. Matter is anything which can be perceived by one or more of the senses, and which can be acted on by... | |
| Andrew Jamieson - Mechanics, Applied - 1894 - 350 pages
...Elementary Applied Mechanics with definitions and with units of force, work and power.* Force is any cause which produces, or tends to produce, motion or change of 'motion in the matter upon which it acts. Matter is anything which can be perceived by one or more of the senses, and which can be acted on by... | |
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