 Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.  Scientific Papers - Page 262by Peter Guthrie Tait - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Sir Philip Magnus - Mechanics - 1875 - 352 pages
...than in a straight line except by the continuous action of some external cause. § 57. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. This law asserts that whatever motion (and by motion is here understood quantity of motion... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Dynamics - 1876 - 282 pages
...tending to alter the period of the earth's rotation about its axis. 63. The Second Law of Motion. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. The facts implied by negation in the second law are as important as those actually affirmed, and as... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Energy - 1876 - 420 pages
...second law of motion. I shall read it, not in his own words, but in a literal translation. He says : ' Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts' Now, for the century and a half since Newton's time, mathematicians and natural philosophers have been... | |
 | sir Philip Magnus (1st bart.) - Mechanics - 1876 - 368 pages
...than in a straight line except by the continuous action of some external cause. § 57. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. This law asserts that whatever motion (and by motion is here understood quantity of motion... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...216 and resolved in precisely the same way, as is at once deducible from Newton's second law, that ' change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts ; ' and accordingly we may take OA and OB as representing in direction and magnitude the forces which... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Philosophy - 1877 - 452 pages
...the second and third Laws. 120. Second Law of Motion. Change of motion is proportional to the acting force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. This Law requires to be explained before the beginner will receive all that its statement includes... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Physics - 1877 - 580 pages
...rectam qua vis ilia imprimatur. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and taken place in, the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. THIRD LAW. Actioni contrariam semper et ctqualem esse reactionem: sire corporum duomm actiones inter... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1878 - 438 pages
...referring to small and trivial cases as well as to the grandest phenomena we can conceive. 65. LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. We have considered change of velocity, or acceleration, TD 4 as a purely geometrical quantity, and... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1878 - 442 pages
...the velocity of the body. 15. Second Law of Motion. Change of motion is proportional to the acting force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force actt. This law will require to be developed in order to place before the student all which its concise... | |
 | James Andrew Blaikie - 1878 - 184 pages
...34. Second Law of Motion.—Change of Momentum is proportional to the force which anises it and is in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. In other words, a given force acting on a body for a given time always produces the same change of... | |
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