Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" M any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. "
An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: Intended for the Use of Colleges and ... - Page 5
by William Whewell - 1847 - 191 pages
Full view - About this book

The Teacher's Assistant in the "Course of Mathematics Adapted to the Method ...

Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...Mechanics, Optics, Electricity and Magnetism. Body is any collection of matter existing in a separate form. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a...body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Hydrostatics is that branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium and motion of fluids in the...
Full view - About this book

A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...the same momentum with a large mass, if its velocity he as much greater as its weight is less. 23. FORCE is any cause which moves or tends to move a...body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. (See Art. 3.) The measure of a force, is the change of motion which it produces ; and the momentum...
Full view - About this book

The mechanical Euclid, containing the elements of mechanics and hydrostatics

William Whewell - 1837 - 226 pages
...NOTIONS. 1. MECHANICS is the science which treats of the laws of the motion and rest of bodies. 2. Any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion, is called FORCE. 3. BODY or MATTEII is anything extended, and possessing the power of resisting the...
Full view - About this book

The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 67

1838 - 596 pages
...to understand this language here, we must take his definitions of force, and of equality of force. 'Any ' cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes ' or tends to change its motion, is called FORCE.' 'Two directly ' opposite forces which balance each other are equal. Forces are '...
Full view - About this book

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book ..., Volume 1

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...momenta as 8 to 5; what are their respective velocities ? Ans. As 24 to 35, or nearly as 5 to 7. 16. FORCE is any cause which moves or tends to move a body, o which changes or tends to change its motion. (Art. 2.) Forces can for the most part be reduced to...
Full view - About this book

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 610 pages
...8 to 5 : What are their respective velocities ? Ans. As 24 to 35, or nearly as 5 to 7. 16. FORCE M any cause which moves or tends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. (Art. 2.) Forces can, for the most part, be reduced to th^ three following classes, attraction, repulsion,...
Full view - About this book

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1844 - 618 pages
...respective velocities ? Ans. As 24 to 35, or nearly as 5 to 7. I 16. FORCE is any cause which moves or (ends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. (Art. 2.) Forces can, for the most part, be reduced to the three following classes, attraction, repulsion,...
Full view - About this book

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book for the Use ...

Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell - Physics - 1845 - 612 pages
...and therefore its mass is to be added to that of the log. 16. FORCE is any cause which moves or 1ends to move a body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. (Art. 2.) Forces can, for the most part, be reduced to the three following classes, attraction, repulsion,...
Full view - About this book

A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1846 - 454 pages
...composition of bodies, and the changes of nature which bodies undergo by their action on each other. 3. Force is any cause which moves or tends to move a...body, or which changes or tends to change its motion. Thus the elastic power of steam in propelling a boat, the action of the wind upon a sail, of a weight...
Full view - About this book

The Ohio Journal of Education, Volume 1

Education - 1852 - 452 pages
...May the members of this Association do something to forward its praiseworthy objects. nnft jKtntinn. FORCE is any cause which moves, or tends to move a...; or which changes, or tends to change its motion. The various mechanical forces employed for useful purposes, have been classified in a preceding article....
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF