| Otto Dziobek - Celestial mechanics - 1892 - 316 pages
...reads as follows: Each particle of matter attracts any other particle with a force whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance from each other. Assume that P, and P2 are two gravitating particles, the coordinates and mass of the... | |
| George Frederick Barker - Physics - 1892 - 932 pages
...other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance from each other." Common observation teaches us that all the phenomena about us which flow from such... | |
| Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - Physics - 1892 - 400 pages
...action is known as Universal Gravitation. 74. Law of Attraction. —- The attraction between two bodies varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centres of mass (77). MECHANICS OF SOLIDS. 51 body of n units of mass will... | |
| Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Robert Stawell Ball - Sun - 1893 - 422 pages
...Starting with the fundamental supposition that erery body must attract every other body with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance by which they are separated, Newton proved that a planet in revolving around the Sun must... | |
| Walter William Rouse Ball - Mechanics, Analytic - 1893 - 195 pages
...statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them ; and he thence deduced the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant... | |
| Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 778 pages
...force whose direction is that of a straight line joining the two, and whose magnitude is proportional directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of mutual distance. He first showed that if the sun attracts the earth, the direction of this force must... | |
| Evan William Small - Earth - 1894 - 296 pages
...that " every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them." It is sometimes popularly stated that Newton discovered " Gravity," and... | |
| S. P. Meads - Physics - 1894 - 298 pages
...has greater density ? [See Chap. V.] Law of Gravitation. The attraction between any two bodies varies as the product of their masses^ and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers of mass. We often speak of the larger body's attracting the smaller,... | |
| James Morgan Hart - English language - 1895 - 390 pages
...other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other. — TAIT : Prop, of Matter (vii.), p. 110. The phenomenon is thus measurable, directly... | |
| Elroy McKendree Avery - Physics - 1895 - 630 pages
...it is only 0.23 times as dense. 90. Law of Gravitation. — The mutual attraction between two bodies varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers of mass. For example, doubling this product doubles the attraction... | |
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