 | W. D. Hills - Mechanics - 1925 - 278 pages
...strain it produces in a suitable elastic substance. (3) By balancing against other known forces. SUMMARY Force is that which changes or tends to change the state of rest or uniform motion of a body. Force is the mutual action of two bodies one on the other. The action... | |
 | Ovid Wallace Eshbach, Byron D. Tapley - Technology & Engineering - 1990 - 2104 pages
...mass, and g = acceleration due to gravity. For a thorough discussion of these terms, see Chapter I. Force is that which changes or tends to change the state of rest or motion of a body. Inertia ii that property of a body by virtue of which it tends to continue... | |
 | M. M. Malhotra, R. Subramanian - Science - 1994 - 586 pages
...matter,. 1.1.6 Body Any matter that is bounded by a closed surface is called a body. 1. 1 .1 Force Force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of motion of a body. It is induced by the action of one body on another, or of a field (eg magnetic) on... | |
 | B.N. Ahuja - Reference - 2006 - 414 pages
...feather, for example, falls more slowly through the air as it is subjected to air resistance. Force : Force is that which changes or tends to change the state of rest or motion of a body or shape of a given body. Equilibrium : When a number of forces acting on... | |
 | Frank Bell - Medical - 1998 - 230 pages
...seconds. Force is a push or a pull. It may be defined by restating Newton's first law of motion: A force is that which changes or tends to change the state of rest or uniform motion of a body. 2.4 ACCELERATION: NEWTON'S SECOND LAW OF MOTION stated in Newton's... | |
 | Richard P. Pohanish - Crafts & Hobbies - 2003 - 448 pages
...jewelry, and recovery of metals. foot stock: The tail stock or tail block of a grinder, lathe, etc. force: That which changes or tends to change the state of a body at rest, or which modifies or tends to modify the course of a body in motion. A fore always implies... | |
 | Gregory Whyte - Medical - 2006 - 261 pages
...Performance can be assessed in terms of the physical concepts of force, torque, work, power and velocity. Force is that which changes or tends to change the state of rest or motion in matter (SI unit of force: newton (N)). Torque is the effectiveness of a force to... | |
 | 424 pages
...Dynamics, be often treated as a particle. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter it contains. A force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of rest, or uniform motion, of a body. 7. If to the same mass we apply forces in succession, and they... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Dynamics - 1960 - 400 pages
...Dynamics, be often treated as a particle. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter it contains. A force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of rest, or uniform motion, of a body. 7. If to the same mass we apply forces in succession, and they... | |
 | 650 pages
...very large number of material particles. The Mass of a body is the quantity of matter in the body. Force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of rest or uniform motion of a body. These definitions may appear to the student to be vague, but we may... | |
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Force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of rest or motion of the body acted upon. 
