 | Edward Salisbury Dana - Mechanics - 1881 - 320 pages
...of the salt water ? Kinds of Forces — Force of Gravity. 58. Definition of Force. A force is that which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion, either in direction or quantity. In view of the fact, before explained (11), that all bodies of which... | |
 | Thomas Hubbard Musick - Force and energy - 1890 - 390 pages
...canonical text-books on physics, force is defined as the cause of motion. 'Any cause,' says Whewell, ' which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion, is called force.' So Clerk-Maxwell: ' Force is whatever changes or tends to change the motion of a... | |
 | Charles Vandeleur Burton - Dynamics - 1890 - 330 pages
...motion will take place. 80. Force. — The following is Newton's definition of force : Force is that which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change the motion of a body. The statement of the First Law of Motion will have prepared the student for this... | |
 | William Richard King - Mechanical engineering - 1906 - 428 pages
...except by allowing it to pass to another body at a lower temperature. 21. Definition. — Force is that which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change the motion of a body. The unit of a force is a pound, and forces are expressed as being equal to so... | |
 | William Richard King - Steam engineering - 1913 - 530 pages
...except by allowing it to pass to another body at a lower temperature. 18. Definitions. — Force is that which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change the motion of a body. The unit of force is a pound, and forces are expressed as being equal to so many... | |
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M any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. 
