 | Park Benjamin - Mechanical engineering - 1878 - 994 pages
...its fundamental principles in the form of three laws : FCNDAMENTAL LAWS. — 1. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted on by a force which compels a change. This law expresses the fact that matter is inert and perfectly... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...means he established (in combination with the law of vis inertias, according to which a body persists in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it be disturbed by extraneous force), the fundamental law of the acceleration of a body acted upon... | |
 | De Volson Wood - Mechanics, Analytic - 1882 - 276 pages
...three laws or mechanical . axioms ; as follows : — 1st. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by some external force. 2d. Change of motion is proportional to the force impressed, and is in the direction of the line in... | |
 | William Paice - Mechanics - 1884 - 130 pages
...reaction are equal and opposite. Let us consider these Laws in order. 151. LAW I. " Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted on by some external force." — Law of Inertia. In all the preceding chapters we have assumed this... | |
 | Henry Milton Whelpley - 1886 - 170 pages
...Velocity of Motion . — [See page 5 .] 4 . Newton 's Laics of Motion. — a . Every body continues in a state of rest , or of uniform motion in a straight line , unless acted upon by some external force . b. Motion, or change of motion, is proportional to the force impressed , and is in the direction... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1886 - 500 pages
...vacuum than in the air, is entirely wrong. It violates Newton's first law of motion. "A body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight...„ line unless acted upon by some external force." In a vacuum there would be no external force, and the ball would not curve at all. Prof. Wood, in the... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Religion and science - 1888 - 360 pages
...of the three laws of motion as given by Newton in his " Principia." First Law : Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted on by some external force. Second Law : Change of motion is proportional to the force impressed, and... | |
 | Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes - Steam engineering - 1888 - 560 pages
...weighing a pound, during one second of time. THE LAWS OF MOTION. First Law. — Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled by impressed forces to change that state. This law lays down that matter has of itself no... | |
 | Robert John Harvey-Gibson - Biology - 1889 - 388 pages
...of matter, namely inertia, which is defined by Newton as ' the tendency of every body to persevere in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless in so far as it is acted upon by an impressed force.' We are thus introduced to two new ideas — '... | |
 | Henry Taylor Bovey - Strains and stresses - 1893 - 850 pages
...Balancing. — Newton's First Law of Motion, called also the Law of Inertia, states that "a body will continue in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is made to change that state by external forces." This property of resisting a change of state is... | |
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Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it. 
