A Plain and Familiar Introduction to the Newtonian Philosophy

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W. Owen, 1754 - 164 pagina's
 

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Pagina 139 - ... bins 755 bushels of grain; there being in the first 125 bushels, and in the second 96 bushels, more than in the third ; how many bushels in the second and third ? Ans. 363 in the second, 267 in the third. 3. There is a certain island 30 miles in circumference. If A and B commence travelling round it, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at, the end of 30 hours ? 4. Having money to invest, I purchased two farms at $ 1,750 each, and...
Pagina 113 - ... that a body plunged in a fluid loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of an equal volume of the fluid.
Pagina 140 - A walks at the rate of 3 miles per hour, and B at the rate of 4 miles per hour, after how many hours do they meet and how many miles does A walk ? 20.
Pagina 93 - ... themselves to any particular sect, selected whatever appeared to them the best and most rational from each. ECLIPSE, the deprivation of the light of the sun, or of some heavenly body, by the interposition of another heavenly body between our sight and it. Thus, eclipses of the sun happen by the moon's intervening between it and the earth ; by which means the shadow of the moon falls upon the earth, when the latitude of the moon does not prevent it, by elevating the moon above, or depressing it...
Pagina 40 - This is remedied by placing a convex glafs gb before the eye, which makes the rays converge fooner, and imprints the image duly on the retina at d. If either the cornea, or chryftalline humour, or both of them, be too convex, as in the eye...
Pagina 138 - ... Our earth, which we consider as a planet, is 24 hours in performing one revolution on its axis; in that period of time, therefore, we have a day and a night. Hence this revolution is called the earth's diurnal or daily motion ; and it is this revolution of the earth from west to east which produces an apparent motion of the sun, moon, and stars, in a contrary direction. Let us now suppose ourselves to be beings, independent of any planet, travelling in the skies, and looking upon the earth in...
Pagina 156 - ... so that it may revolve freely, carrying round with it the attached wheel. On the axis is coiled a rope which sustains the weight ; and round the periphery of the wheel is coiled another rope, in a contrary direction, to which is suspended the power. Then supposing the machine to be put in motion, the velocity of the power will be to that of the weight, as the circumference of the wheel to that of the axle ; for it will be perceived that the power must sink through a space equal to the circumference...
Pagina 144 - The change of motion is always proportional to the moving force impressed, and is always made according to the right line, in .which that force is impressed.
Pagina 96 - NIGHT. 101 nights. For an inhabitant at the equator, and one on the same meridian towards the poles, would come into the light at the same time, and, on the other side, would immerge into darkness at the...

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