The Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus: With Numerous Examples

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Macmillan, 1904 - Calculus - 364 pages
 

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Page 361 - Newton discovered, as a fundamental law of nature, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Page 296 - ... form : — When any forces whatever act on a body, then, whether the body be originally at rest or moving with any velocity and in any direction, each force produces in the body the exact change of motion which it would have produced if it had acted singly on the body originally at rest.
Page 352 - ... attracts m at the distance r from m: m' J = K~^ . 246. It will be shown later (Art. 253) that the attraction of a homogeneous sphere at any external point is the same as if the mass of the sphere were concentrated at its center. Hence if m...
Page 75 - Assuming that the work of driving a steamer through the water varies as the cube of her speed, show that her most economical rate per hour against a current running с miles per hour is 3c/'2 miles per hour.

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