Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force, whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from... A Syllabus of a Course in Elementary Physics - Page 15by Frederick E. Sears - 1905Full view - About this book
| C J. Kennedy - 1846 - 172 pages
...to the operations which we see taking place among physical objects. Take, for instance, the law of gravitation: " Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force which is universally proportional to the square of the distance between them." This form of expression... | |
| Archibald Sandeman - Dynamics - 1850 - 222 pages
...led to infer the most general physical law yet known, — the Law of Universal Gravitation — That every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force whose accelerating effect is proportional directly to the mass of the attracting particle and inversely to... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...Division of this Treatise, may be attraction thus enunciated. Every particle of matter in the unircrse attracts every other particle with a force, whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...the next Division of this Treatise, may be thus enunciated. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force, whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely... | |
| 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
...night succeed 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,... | |
| 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 - 614 pages
...night succeed 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,... | |
| 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
...night succeed 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,... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 820 pages
...gravitation, as given by the author. It is as follows : — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of a line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their... | |
| Robert Routledge - 1877 - 364 pages
...confirmatory of Newton's statement of the law of gravitation, namely, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly proportional to their masses, and inversely... | |
| John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...principles, the grand theory of universal gravitation, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every^ other .particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnit^<,de is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely... | |
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