 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1878 - 254 pagini
...earth's radius, that we cannot from observations of this kind infer that gravity varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth, the observed decrease of the intensity of gravity is consistent with this law, the form of which had been... | |
 | Alexander Ziwet - 1904 - 522 pagini
...acceleVation varies from place to place ; according to the law of gravitation, it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the center of the earth. The weight of a body is therefore a meaningless term unless the place be specified where the body is situated,... | |
 | Henry Crew - 1909 - 464 pagini
...attraction for it; hence, The weight of a body above the earth's surface is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the center of the earth. The total weight of a body acts as though concentrated at its center of mass (cm). A body is in equilibrium... | |
 | Henry Bayard Phillips - 1924 - 136 pagini
...iniefinitely great distance to the earth, assuming that the force of attraction varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth. The constant of proportionality can be found from the known acceleration g at the surface of the earth.... | |
 | 1904 - 694 pagini
...poles and the least at the equator. The weight of a body above the surface of the earth is inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth. The relation between the weight of a body at the surface and its weight above the surface may be expressed... | |
 | Hsue Shen Tsien, Hugh Latimer Dryden, William Hayward Pickering - 1946 - 82 pagini
...THEORY Since the gravitational attraction on all objects above the earth's surface varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth, the problem to be solved is simply that of the motion of a particle under a central force which varies... | |
 | Homer Edward Newell - 1980 - 526 pagini
...Observatory (fig. 16), the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (fig. 17), and the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (fig. 18) — consisted of very heavy,...Thus, whenever the end facing the earth tended to Figure 16. Orbiting Solar Observatory. OSO was the first obsewatory-class satellite built by NASA.... | |
 | Goddard Space Flight Center - 1965 - 324 pagini
...expected about 0.05 Gravity Gradient Torques r Since the gravitational attraction varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of the earth, the gravitational force acting on those parts of the spacecraft farther away from the earth was less than... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 1972 - 148 pagini
...According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, the acceleration of gravity at a point in space varies inversely with the square of the distance from the center of gravity of the primary body. Because the weight of a given mass varies directly with the local acceleration... | |
 | Lawrence J. Kamm - 1995 - 420 pagini
...of orientation. 4. Gravity gradient has been used to orient a number of satellites. Because gravity varies inversely with the square of the distance from the center of the earth, an elongated satellite tends to have its long axis torqued into the vertical. (The torque... | |
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Since the earth's gravitational field varies inversely with the square of the distance from the center of the earth, the... 
