 | Joel Dorman Steele - Science - 1888 - 236 pages
...keeps the earth in motion around the sun? (See Astronomy, p. 22.) According to the First Law of Motion, "Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." 39. Do we ever see the sun after it sets... | |
 | John Greaves - Statics - 1888 - 302 pages
...Force is supplied by Newton's 1st Law, which asserts that 'Every body remains in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state '. Force, then, is that which alters or tends... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 260 pages
...of the myriad stars of heaven, have been tested as conforming to it. The first law of motion that " every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state," can never be proved by induction. That... | |
 | William McKendree Bryant - Force and energy - 1890 - 336 pages
...and of its central significance. FIRST LAW OF MOTION. This law was formulated by Newton as follows: " Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." * AVe have, indeed, already developed the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 992 pages
...external force is applied to a body, we are led to the statement culled the first law of motion: 1. Every body continues in, its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far at it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. This expresses simply the inertia... | |
 | Charles Vandeleur Burton - Dynamics - 1890 - 330 pages
...MATTER AND FORCE 79. WE commence with some theorems and definitions. Newton's First Law of Motion.— Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so Jar as it may be compelled by force to change that state. The first part of this statement — that... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1890 - 356 pages
...108. WE commence with Newton's FIRST LAW OP MOTION. Every body perseveres in its state, of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it its compelled ly forces to change that state. The property, thus enunciated as belonging to all bodies,... | |
 | Edward Salisbury Dana - Mechanics - 1881 - 320 pages
...The three laws of motion, as stated by Newton, are: (1) 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 by impressed forces to change that state. (2) Change of motion is proportional to... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Physics - 1891 - 572 pages
...the same subjects. The first law, virtually a statement of this property of matter, is as follows : " Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." Just what is meant by force, you will learn... | |
 | University of Toronto. Mathematical and Physical Society - Science - 1891 - 136 pages
...enquiry, that I might have them by me for future reference. The first law I found stated as follows : " Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." The difficulty in this lay in uniform motion.... | |
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Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. 
