| Elias Loomis - Physics - 1858 - 374 pages
...have been given by Newton in the form of Mechanical Axioms, or laws of motion. They are the following: LAW I. — Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted upon by some external force. Matter in its unorganized... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 652 pages
...from a brief consideration of his simple statement of the laws of motion. The first of these laws is : Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by impressed forces to change that state," Thus Professor Tait quotes, and fully approves,... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...be made use of at pleasure. These definitions being premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 58. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or...compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of the first law of motion as to velocity into the following... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 368 pages
...difficulty. 133. We will here repeat the Laws of Motion. I. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by force acting on it. II. Change of motion is proportional to the acting force,... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 372 pages
...discuss the First Law of Motion. 10. First Law of Motion. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by force acting on it. It is necessary to limit the meaning of the word motion... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...viribiis cogitur statum suum muture. Ecery body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion ma straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by vmfinxsed forces to change that state. 245. The meaning of the term Rest, in physical science, Re*.... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bengal - Asia - 1870 - 894 pages
...own state of rest or motion. This property which is called inertia is best defined by Newton's law " Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform...compelled by impressed forces to change that state." Now, by uniform motion we mean moving through equal spaces in equal times, or rather we should say,... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1871 - 462 pages
...be made use of at pleasure. These definitions being premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 63. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or...compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of the first law of motion as to velocity into the following... | |
| George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1871 - 620 pages
...entitled to notice, together with illustrations of the kind of evidence on which their truth depends. Law I. Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform speed in a ttraiyht line, except in го far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus illud h viribus impressis cogitur stalum suum mutare. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...compelled by impressed forces to change that state. 211. The meaning of the term Rest, in physical science, cannot be absolutely denned, inasmuch as absolute... | |
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