 To say of the stone which falls to earth that it obeys an attraction which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance, is not to understand the stone's fall.  The Study of Sociology - Pagina 37de Herbert Spencer - 1904 - 446 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - 1845 - 408 pagini
...never was a law of such vast importance announced in so few words. The simple principle, that gravity varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, enables us to infer it priori all of Kepler's laws. If one of several bodies of a system... | |
 | James M'Intire - 1850 - 352 pagini
...theory of gravitation as stated in the last and present articles, namely, that the force of attraction varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, was first promulgated by Sir Isaac Newton ; and hence it is sometimes called, The Newtonian... | |
 | Thomas Tate - 1853 - 396 pagini
...distance one-ninth, and so on. These two!laws are expressed by saying, — that the force of gravitation varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. Bodies are attracted by the earth as if the whole of its mass were collected in its centre... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - 1855 - 442 pagini
...at treble oneninth, and so on. These two laws are expressed by saying, that the force of gravitation varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. Bodies are attracted by the earth as if the whole of its mass were collected in its centre... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pagini
...but only tells us that all masses or portions of matter tend towards each other with a force which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. This law enables us to measure and calculate the force- of gravitation, but throws no gleam... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1855 - 380 pagini
...hour ; how far and how long must the first travel before he is overtaken by the second? 17. Gravity varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. Compare the amount of the earth's attraction on two bodies, the one having a mass 35 at a... | |
 | Liverpool ladies' coll - 1857 - 218 pagini
...lying within the scope of the law that every particle of matter attracts every other with a force which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. It is the object of Philosophy to ascend from a knowledge of facts to a knowledge of laws;... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 396 pagini
...planets exterior to the orbit of Mercury exert an amount of power on this nearest planet to the sun which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance of the disturbing body. Let us suppose the earth and Venus to be in conjunction with Mercury,... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1866 - 370 pagini
...Newton) the mechanism by which these masses are regulated in their orbits, by an attracting force which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. These wonderful achievements of the Great Author of Nature teach us lessons of humility as... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1866 - 384 pagini
...is But, since the planet is retained in its orbit by the attraction of the sun, and this attraction varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, Art. 256, we shall have B»~ T2 ' M=^5!. (1) For the same reason, if we put m to represent... | |
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