 | Alfred Payson Gage - 1888 - 380 Seiten
...everywhere to exist : — The attraction between every two bodies of matter in the universe varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers of gravity. Representing the masses of two bodies by m and m', the distance by d, and the attraction... | |
 | John Thornton - 1888 - 266 Seiten
...with a force ina»1ometer. whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other. ' Thus if the mass of one body be six times a certain unit, and the... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1889 - 308 Seiten
...History of mathematics, London, 1888. universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them ; and he thence deduces the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1889 - 328 Seiten
...every particle of matter attracts every other particle, and he suspected that the attraction varied as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. He also worked out the fluxional calculus tolerably completely: thus in a manuscript... | |
 | William Garnett - 1889 - 344 Seiten
...unit of force. The law of gravitation is, that the attraction between two material particles varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square oi the distance between them. Hence, if mj, m., denote the masses of two particles expressed in terms... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 372 Seiten
...particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.' This theory receives such enormous authority from its power of explaining... | |
 | William McKendree Bryant - 1890 - 336 Seiten
...particle with a force, whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from * See Whewell, "ffitt. of Inductive Sciences," 3d (NY) Ed., I., 549. each, other."*... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 848 Seiten
...force whose direction is that of the straight line joining the two, and whose magnitude is proportional directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their mutual distance. Previous to Newton's investigations, Kepler, by a truly prodigious amount of... | |
 | University of Toronto. Mathematical and Physical Society - 1891 - 136 Seiten
...particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter, with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance) an hypothesis which explained and will, in all probability, continue to explain certain... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - 1892 - 400 Seiten
...known as Universal Gravitation. 74. Law of Attraction. —- The attraction between two bodies varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely...the square of the distance between their centres of mass (77). MECHANICS OF SOLIDS. 51 body of n units of mass will be mn a. In like manner, it may be... | |
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Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between... 
