 | 1904 - 1078 σελίδες
...and other ponderable matters, but every portion of matter attracts every other portion with a force proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of their distances apart.1 The sum of the attractions toward the center of the earth equals the amount previously... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1877 - 342 σελίδες
...scientific statement that " every portion of matter attracts every other portion, and the attraction between them is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of their distance." Similarly, it may be enough for many purposes to say that men are saved by faith and truth ; but this... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1877 - 340 σελίδες
...scientific statement that " every portion of matter attracts every other portion, and the attraction between them is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of their distance." Similarly, it may be enough for many purposes to say that men are saved by faith and truth ; but this... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1877 - 526 σελίδες
...is founded on the law of gravitation, or that the mutual attractive force between two Email bodies is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of their distance asunder. The unit mass is no longer 1 Ib. ; it is calculated according to the following laws, the unit... | |
 | James Andrew Blaikie - 1879 - 242 σελίδες
...attracts every other with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of their distance from each other. A particle of matter near the surface of the earth attracts, and is attracted by,... | |
 | Arthur John Bell - 1890 - 498 σελίδες
...suggestion," etc. " In the hands of Newton the doctrine of gravitation assumed its final form, which is,— " Every portion of matter attracts every other portion...the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance. " That two homogeneous spheres of matter act as if the whole of the masses were concentrated... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - 1893 - 320 σελίδες
...Mass, Force, and Acceleration.— The law of gravitation is stated by Clerk Maxwell as follows : — ' Every portion of matter attracts every other portion...their masses divided by the square of their distance." Let/represent the gravitational stress, m and m1 any two portions of matter in the universe, and d... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 σελίδες
...viz. that every particle in the universe attracts any other particle towards itself with a force which is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them, would completely and absolutely account for the three laws of planetary... | |
 | 1890 - 558 σελίδες
...that this subject is preliminary to the all-important theorem that the attraction between two spheres is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance apart of their centres.— 1LI.CE, Bath. [69763.]— Pyrotechny.— To DR. WH . Would... | |
 | William Watson - 1899 - 990 σελίδες
...it is to Newton that we owe the law of gravitation in the form in which it remains to this day, viz. every portion of matter attracts every other portion...their masses divided by the square of their distance apart. As a test of the truth of his law, Newton showed that it correctly accounted for the force necessary... | |
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... bodies is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them. 
