 | Richard Potter - Mechanics - 1846 - 190 pages
...fluid bodies at rest are considered. In Hydrodynamics the effects on fluid bodies when motion ensues. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains ; and matter is defined to be whatever possesses bulk and affords resistance to the occupation of the... | |
 | Richard Potter - 1848 - 196 pages
...when motion ensues. In the present treatise, Elementary Statics and Dynamics only, are treated of. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains ; and matter is defined to be, whatever possesses bulk and affords resistance to the occupation of... | |
 | Thomas Tate - Mechanical engineering - 1853 - 396 pages
...deductions are based. DEFINITIONS. 2. MATTER is known to us by its properties, which affect our senses. The MASS of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. The DENSITY of a body is the comparative quantity of matter contained in a given volume. 3. A body... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - Physics - 1855 - 442 pages
...MECHANICS. LAWS OF MATTER AND MOTION. MATTER is known to us by its properties, which affect our senses. The MASS of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. The DENSITY of a body is the comparative quantity of matter con tained in a given volume. A body is... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...but because the cubic inch of iron contains more gravitating particles than the cubic inch of wood. Mass. — The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. Density. — The term density is used to indicate the quantity of matter contained in a given volume... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1856 - 358 pages
...of measuring mass is practically useful : but whose ideas were ever extended by being informed that the mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains ? "We may notice another illustration of the way in which the tendency ta formal dogmatic definition... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1859 - 368 pages
...force of gravity, or inversely as the square of its distance from the centre of the earth. Mass. 11. The MASS of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. Were the force of gravity the same at every point of the earth's surface, the weight of a body might... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 pages
...but because the cubic inch of iron contains more gravitating particles than the cubic inch of wood. Mass. — The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. Density. — The term density is used to indicate the quantity of matter contained in a given volume... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Physics - 1861 - 780 pages
...surface, is directly proportional to its distance from the centre of the earth. 2 4. Mass and Weight. 00. Mass. — The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains ; and since the absolute wcight of n mass of matter is the sum of the attraction of gravitation upon... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 524 pages
...Repellent Forces. Heat is the principal if not the only repellent force in Nature. Mass and Density. 3. The MASS of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. Different bodies, having the same volume, contain very different quantities of matter ; for example,... | |
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Mass. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains. 
