 Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.  Outlines of elementary physiography - Page 4by George Thom (principal of Dollar inst.) - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Change of state (Physics) - 1862 - 254 pages
...their correspondence with the known phenomena of physical change. CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER. 1. EVERY particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance between them. This is the great discovery of Newton, which... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1865 - 312 pages
...phenomena to general theories— in the grand cosmical law : — ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance.' Under this law the satellites sweep round their primaries,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1865 - 302 pages
...phenomena to general theories—in the grand cosmical law :—' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance.' Under this law the satellites sweep round their primaries,... | |
 | Sidney Augustus Norton - Physics - 1870 - 518 pages
...gravity of the two bodies. The law of gravitation, discovered in 1666 by Sir Isaac Newton, is usually stated as follows: Every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force (1.) direcHy proportional to its mass, and (2.) inversely proportional to the square of its distance.... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1870 - 332 pages
...universe. This law, sometimes called the Newtonian law of universal gravitation, may be enunciated as follows : Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force that varies directly as the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 616 pages
...each other on the earth. The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...each other on the earth. The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...each other on the earth. The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other 'particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the -distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Attractions of ellipsoids - 1873 - 520 pages
...the direction always passes through the centre : see also Art. 56. But if we admit with Newton that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, bodies will no longer necessarily be attracted exactly towards... | |
 | Sidney Augustus Norton - Physics - 1875 - 302 pages
...gravity of the two bodies. The law of gravitation, discovered in 1 666 by Sir Isaac Newton, is usually stated as follows: Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force (1) directly proportional to its mass, and (2) tnversely proportional to the square of its distance.... | |
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