 | 1846 - 308 pagina’s
...the distance between the bodies is great with reference to their linear dimensions, the repulsion is inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the product of the masses. (6) When the distance is small, the action becomes apparently irregular. Thus if the quantities of... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1860 - 942 pagina’s
...electricities conduct themselves as if they were self-repuL-ive and mutually attractive with forces varying inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the product of thcquantities of electricity. It must be noticed that in this statement we extend the assertion of... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1872 - 684 pagina’s
...the distance between the bodies is great with reference to their linear dimensions, the repulsion is inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the product of the masses. (6.) When the distance is small, the action becomes apparently irregular. Thus if the quantities of... | |
 | 1888 - 486 pagina’s
...system is traced back to the law that every body attracts every other body with a force as the inverse square of the distance and directly as the product of the masses. Given those two laws, and the mathematical ability to ascertain their results, and the details all... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 520 pagina’s
...gravitation,' there was only one admissible form of that idea — the law that the attraction varied inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the product of the masses of the bodies concerned. He proved the working hypothesis on the assumption that the loorking idea... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1908 - 520 pagina’s
...equally attracted by the earth and the sun. The gravitational attraction of one body upon another varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the product of the masses. Represent the mass of the earth by unity. 22. Find the volume of a pyramid whose altitude is 7 and... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 524 pagina’s
...gravitation,' there was only one admissible form of that idea — the law that the attraction varied inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the product of the masses of the bodies concerned. He proved the working hypothesis on the assumption that the working idea was... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1908 - 216 pagina’s
...equally attracted by the earth and the sun. The gravitational attraction of one body upon another varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the product of the masses. Represent the mass of the earth by unity. 22. Find the volume of a pyramid whose altitude is 7 and... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1912 - 508 pagina’s
...equally attracted by the earth and the sun. The gravitational attraction of one body upon another varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the product of the masses. Represent the mass of the earth by unity. 22. Find the volume of a pyramid whose altitude is 7 and... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1916 - 280 pagina’s
...equally attracted by the earth and the sun. The gravitational attraction of one body upon another varies inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the product of the masses. Represent the mass of the earth by unity. This problem may be solved more easily if we let d = distance... | |
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If the distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles, and if the mass of the sun is 300,000 times that of the earth, find two positions in which a particle would be equally attracted by the earth and the sun. The gravitational attraction... 
