 | Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...Body is any collection of matter existing in a separate form. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Hydrostatics is that branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium and motion of fluids in the... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 226 pages
...science which treats of the laws of the motion and rest of bodies. 2. Any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion, is called FORCE. 3. BODY or MATTEII is anything extended, and possessing the power of resisting the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...nature which bodies undergo by their action on each other. 3. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Thus the elastic power of steam in propelling a boat, the action of the wind upon a sail, of a weight... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...a fundamental property of fluids to be established by experiment. ' Any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion, is called FORCE.' ' All bodies within our observation fall or tend to fall to the earth ; and the force... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...Body is any collection of matter existing in a separate form. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Every force produces actual motion if it is not counteracted by contrary forces; but if it remains... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1842 - 384 pages
...less. 23. FORCE is any cause which moves or tend to move a body, or which changes or tends to cliange its motion. (See Art. 3.) The measure of a force,...pounds weight, a weight just sufficient to balance it being supposed to act against it by means of a cord passing over a pulley. Thus a cannon ball may be... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 618 pages
...Body is any collection of matter existing in a separate form. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Every force produces actual motion if it is not counteracted by contrary forces; but if it remains... | |
 | William Whewell - Mechanics - 1847 - 208 pages
...treats of the motion and rest of bodies as produced by Force. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Every science involves certain ideas, by means of which we give unity and connection to our sensations,... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 844 pages
...Association do something to forward its praiseworthy objects. nni FORCE is any cause which moves, or tends to move a body ; or which changes, or tends to change its motion. The various mechanical forces employed for useful purposes, have bcen classified in a preceding article.... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 452 pages
...something to forward its praiseworthy objects. nnft jKtntinn. FORCE is any cause which moves, or tends to move a body ; or which changes, or tends to change its motion. The various mechanical forces employed for useful purposes, have been classified in a preceding article.... | |
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Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. 
