Navigation: Practical and Theoretical

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C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1923 - Navigation - 156 pages
 

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Page 86 - I A body, acted on by two forces simultaneously, will describe the diagonal of a parallelogram in the same time as it would describe the sides by those forces separately.
Page 6 - The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface ; as A B.
Page 6 - The axis of a circle of a sphere is the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. The ends of the axis are called the poles of the circle.
Page 130 - Divide 3654000 by 7308, and 35410 by 311, by common logarithms. 3— Correct the courses for deviation, variation, and leeway, and find the course and distance from the given point, and the latitude and longitude in by inspection. 4. 1882, January ist, in longitude 101° 41...
Page 119 - Any two particles in the universe are such that they attract each other directly as their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Page 6 - A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a surface every point of which is equally distant from a fixed point which is called the centre of the sphere.
Page 86 - A be acted upon, at the same instant, by two forces represented in directions and velocity by the straight lines AB and AC, respectively; then, the resultant or combined effect of these forces will be represented in velocity and direction by the diagonal AD of the parallelogram having the components AB and AC as adjacent sides.
Page 7 - Longitude of a Place. — Is the smaller arc of the equator, intercepted between the prime meridian and the meridian passing through the place.

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