 | Stephen Chase - Algebra - 1849 - 348 pages
...2i8. 1. If, above the surface of the earth, the weight of a given body (ie its gravitation towards the earth) varies inversely as the square of its distance from the centre of the earth, how higli must the body be raised, that its weight may be only half what it was... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...circuit and continue to revolve around the earth like the moon. 394. ITS VARIATION. The force of gravity above the surface of the earth, varies inversely as the square of the distance from the earth's centre. By this expression we mean that if gravity exerts at the surface... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1872 - 374 pages
...circuit and continue to revolve around the earth like the moon. 394. ITS VARIATION. The force of gravity above the surface of the earth, varies inversely as the square of the distance from the earth's centre. By this expression we mean that if gravity exerts £ the surface... | |
 | Camille Flammarion - Atmosphere - 1873 - 632 pages
...temperature of Paris, representing as it does a longer series of years. The heat received from the Sun by the Earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the Sun; and as the Earth does not move in a circular orbit, there is, in addition to the monthly variation... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Calculus - 1884 - 270 pages
...required for a body to fall through the earth. 2. Assuming that the acceleration of a falling body above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the earth's centre, find the velocity and time. Let x = the varying, and с the initial, distance of the... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Calculus - 1898 - 302 pages
...3.1416 V20919360/82.17 sec. = 42 min. 13.4 sec. 13. Assuming that the acceleration of a falling body above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the earth's centre, find the velocity and time. Let x = the varying, and с the initial, distance of the... | |
 | George Egbert Fisher, Isaac Joachim Schwatt - Algebra - 1898 - 712 pages
...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),... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1898 - 420 pages
...then ( - = - \ the stress becomes one fourth as great. 66. Law of Weight. The weight of a body at or above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of mass of the earth. Since the earth is not a perfect sphere,1 it follows... | |
 | George Egbert Fisher - 1901 - 622 pages
...surface varies as the square of its edge ? 15. It has been found by experiment that the weight of a body, above the surface of the earth, 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... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1901 - 462 pages
...they balance 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... | |
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The weight of an object above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth. 
