Elements of the Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function

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Page 1 - Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the two particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Page 116 - Q is a point so chosen on the normal at P of the surface of constant v which passes through P, that VQ — vp is positive.
Page 1 - Every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the. square of the distance between them.
Page 28 - Show that the attraction at the focus of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution bounded by a plane perpendicular to the axis at a distance b from the vertex is of the form 4irpa log (1 + b/a~).
Page 277 - K and E are the complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kinds with modulus k ; so that the quantity in PA brackets is a function of the ratio p^r simply.

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