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has informed me of his design; Pythagoras called those who love
wisdom, philosophers; a man eager for glory often turns aside
from the way of virtue; what slave is more attached to his master
than a dog? a good man adheres to good resolutions; the age of
Cicero was fruitful in virtues; the prison is filled with traffickers;
a life without friends is full of snares and fear; Italy was formerly
full of Pythagoreans; Gaul abounded in men and the productions
of the earth; he is without human aid; he declared that he was
the third person who was destined by fate to hold supreme power
in the state; it is clearly ascertained to me that you are able to
gain that kingdom; beasts are devoid of reason and speech; all
who are possessed of virtue are happy; anger cannot govern itself;
whatever any one erjoys is his own (enjoyment is possession);
Tarquia had a brother (by name) Aruns, a man of a mild character;
the fleet of Xerxes consisted of one thousand two hundred ships;
he accused him of flight and fear; I fice thee, O son, from
blame; he is a man of no importance; the little field was worth
two thousand sesterees; your letter was of value to me; of what
account is that glory of men? Sextilius highly valued money
obtained legally; depraved men are wont to value their own
property little, and to long for others' property; it is very base to
value more highly what appears useful than what appears honour-
able; Canius bought the gardens at the price which Pythius
wished; I sell my corn for not more (pluris) than the rest, perhaps
even for less; I do not care a rush for those nefarious men; let
us account of no consequence the tales of ill-tempered old men;
you do not value me a farthing; how much do I value you? not a
rush; this slave is worth nothing; he allows her to play as she
likes, and does not regard her at all; what is of very great import-
ance is often considered a necessity; Julius Caesar adapted the
year to the course of the sun, so that it had three hundred and
sixty-five days; Claudius took very little sleep; the state of the
Senons is very strong and of great weight among the Gauls; an
orator ought to be a man of good judgment and of very high ability;
thou also wilt become one of the celebrated fountains; any man
may err, but none except a fool will persist in error; it is the mark
of a dull understanding to follow the streamlets and not to visit
the fountains; nothing is so much the token of a narrow and
depraved mind as to love riches; all these things, except the capitol
and the citadel, were in the enemy's hands; you know that by
this time I am altogether Pompey's; to put many persons in
danger of their lives seems the act of a cruel man, if man he may
be called; to yield to necessity has always been considered the
mark of a wise man; Popilius got the keys into his own possession;
that you should come as soon as possible greatly concerns your
domestic interests; your being in good health greatly concerns
you and me; it is not of so much consequence in what disposition
a thing is written as in what it is taken; that in no way concerns
me; that concerns them more than himself; letters were devised
that we might inform the absent of anything which it concerned us
or (aut) them to know; your being the commander is for the common
safety it is of no consequence how many books you have, but of
what kind they are; Caesar was accustomed to say that his safety
concerned not himselt so much as the commonwealth; he sick
at heart; he is very much attached to (very fond of) you; he went
away with a confused and undetermined mind.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ARITHMETIC.

MR. ELITOR, Yesterday, for the first time, the POPULAR EDUCATOR was ut into my hands. At page 224, I find "Garçon Embarrasse."vishing for a solution of a certain question; but whether to clear up his own mind, or to embarrass the minds of others, we are not strictly told. But however this may be, I would inform him that he may find it elegantly solved in Professor Davies' " Key to Hutton's Mathematics," page 194.

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figure in the lower line;" whereas I, in my original conception, when I borrowed 1 (as old men and old writers call it), I reduced the figure in the upper line by unity, and this I found on mature reasoning to be philosophically correct. Mr. Augustus De Morgan in his Principles of Arithmetic "gives a reason for the popular method, but it seems to want originality. "To put the less line under the greater" should be discarded altogether. "In multipli ation, you must place the multiplier under the multiplicand, you must begin with the unit figure of the multiplier," &c. I will now work an example in three different ways, in which every one of these rules is violated.

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I do not mean to say that every example in multiplication is so well adapted for contractions as the one I have chosen, but I do say that many are so. In the first method, it may be observed that the sum of the 1st and 2nd, as well as of the 4th and 5th partial products of the multiplicand, is equal to the middle. In the second method, the first partial product is that of 9 times the multiplicand, for 900; the second partial product is that of 5 times the times the first, for 27; hence, the total product is that of 45,000. former, for 45,000; and the third partial product is that of three 900427-45927. In the third method, the first partial product is times the former, for 96; the third is that of 7 times the second for that of 12 times the multiplier, for 1,200; the second is that of 8 672,0000; hence, the total product is that of 672,000+1,200-+96-

6721296.

In division, we are told that "the product of the divisor by the quotient figure must be less, or at least not more, than the dividend;" even this is not absolutely necessary, although I admit that it is, generally speaking, the most convenient. But in the finding of the greatest common measure it may frequently be dispensed with to great advantage. The olden writers seem to insist that in the Rule of Three the first and third terms must be of the same kind; but the moderns, upon whom new light has broken in, all say, with out doubt correctly, that "the first and second must be of the same kind." With me it has been always a matter of indifference, and in a strict numerical sense there is really no difference. Another hindrance to the young tyro is the mysterious language in which the rules of arithmetic are enveloped. Every new enunciation of the application of its fundamental principles is dignified with the appellation of a new rule; hence, the question commonly put: "How far can you cipher ?" "What rule are you now in ? For my own part, I never could discover but two rules, Addition and Subtraction; or, for the sake of conformity, if you please, four. Our old mathematicians liked to be accounted conjurers, and the present ones evince a desire to mystify their knowledge, or to let it out as slowly as possible. Hence, youths are suffered to believe that they are about to learn a certain species of magic, that figures are tools selected for this purpose, and that a configuration of these tools, according to unexplained rules, gives them the mastery over whole numbers, and to add vulgar fractions, are different operations; and thus they stumble at every step. There is no man, however illiterate, but he can add and subtract; from this, therefore, it is evident that arithmetic is the easiest of all the sciences. Why, then, should we embarrass a science founded on common sense with so many unnecessary difficulties? Yours, &c.

Mr. Editor, I perceive you have afforded a niche to arithmetic in your popular journal; permit me, therefore, as an old arithmetician, to give a few hints relating to that science. Although I am old and fast falling into the back-ground before my youthful, more highly gifted, more highly favoured, and rapidly improving country-secrets otherwise unattainable. They are left to think that to add men, yet my arithmetic, as yet, is in tolerable repute, because perhaps it is original. I was a very poor boy, brought up in the most servile drudgery at the plough; no school, no teacher, I had to glean for knowledge by the way side, and that, too, then (more so than none; in a very barren land. But by some kind instinct I knew the principles of the fundamental rules in arithmetic before I knew their names. As years came on, and I began to see the work of others, I became a critic. A few of my pertinent remarks on teachers and writers on arithmetic I wili lay before you. I quarrelled first with the word MUST either expressed or implied. Huel Vor, near Heiston, Cornwall, "In subtraction you must when you borrow 1, carry ten to the next

Sep. 19, 1853.

THOMAS GUNDRY."

SLOANE'S BALANCE.

SIR,-I beg leave to send you a sketch of a balance which I have designed, with a view to bring such an instrument within the reach of any student of chemistry; the expense to an ingenious person would scarcely exceed a shilling. The balance is composed of a penknife blade, easily procurable at any cutler's for a few pence, fixed in a stand of wood; the beam, made of a bit of polished brass wire, is formed to rest on the edge of the blade as shewn in the sketch; and the pans are watch glasses borne by silk threads; on the top of the loop in the beam, I have soldered an index which can be adjusted (the balance being at perfect rest) by a card with a zero point drawn on it, sliding in a groove on the top of the wooden stand. This balance will be found inexpensive, and sufficiently sensitive for all usual purposes, weighing grains with accuracy. I

am, &c.,

114, Great Britain-street, Dublin. Sep. 17, 1853.

SOLUTIONS.

JOHN J. SLOANE,

Thirteen thirty-sixths of the whole, the Wolf finish'd,
Twenty-one thirty-sixths, the Tiger diminished,
Leaving only two thirty-sixths, full to the King,
The portion eaten up, by himself, at a spring.
Having found out these answers, apart from all men,

I beg to subscribe myself, A. U., Rutherglen,

[This question was also correctly solved by J. W., Reading; W Parker, Busk; H. R. R.; Josephus, Gravesend; R. Brown, Leven H. C. P., Bristol; and others.]

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TOM HARRISON (Greenwich): We shall discuss the subject of the Bin mial Theorem in the lessons in Algebra as soon as we can.-J. S. (Dartford) Go on improving.-F. RICHARDS (Selby): We don't know it.-W. & EDWARDS (Swinton-st.): Thanks-R. J.R.: We quite agree with his remarks on Prop. III. Book I., but we have dwelt already too long on the initial propositions; we must now advance with m re speed.

OMEGA: We think that the Latin Dictionary by E. A. Andrews, which is a translation of Dr. Freund's Latin Dictionary published in Germany, is most likely to be the best. As to the study of Latin, get all the knowledge you can by hook or by crook.-J. E. S. A. is too flattering to us; we shall consider his suggestions.

"plution of the Question proposed in No. 75, page 344, Vol. III., of of Prop. VII, won't do, neither will the demonstration of Prop. XVI

the "Popular Educator."

Here, the wolf would eat of the sheep in 20 minutes, and the tiger would eat of the sheep in 10 minutes; therefore, both would eat & of the sheep in 20 minutes. Consequently there would be of the sheep to be eaten together by the wolf, tiger, and lion.

Now, the wolf would eat 1 sheep in 1 hour; the tiger would eat 3 sheep in 1 hour; and the lion would eat 2 sheep in 1 hour; therefore, all would eat 6 sheep in 1 hour. In what time, then, would they eat of a sheep? Here we have 6 sheepsheep: 1 hour: 1 minutes for the time taken by the 3 animals to eat the whole sheep, from the commencement of the operation.

Lastly, we have 60 minutes: 21 minutes :: 1 sheep: 1, the part the wolf ate; 20 minutes: 11 minutes :: 1 sheep, the part the tiger ate; 30 minutes: 13 minutes: 1 sheep, the part the lion ate. Whence, +H+4=38=1 sheep, proof.

G. ARCHEOLD, St. Peter's.

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LITERARY NOTICES.

GREEK.

The Third Volume of CASSELL'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY will contain the Acts of the Apostles in the original Greek, according to the text of Augustus Hahn; with grammatical, historical, and expository Notes ; followed by a Lexicon, explaining the meaning of every word-the whole carefully revised and corrected. This work is well adapted for the use of Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, and will supply our Greek students

[The following rythmical answer may please some readers.] with excellent materials for practice in translation.

Mister Autodidactos, I've look'd o'er your rhyme,
And propose now to tell you exactly the time
Which the Wolf, with the Tiger and Lion combined,
Took to eat up the Sheep, and leave nothing behind.
Twenty-one and 'wo-thirds are the MINUTES, you see,
That the sheep was in eating among them all three.
Then as to the portion to each one allotted,
This may, in the following words, be just noted:

LATIN.

The first volume of CASSELL'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY is now ready, price 1s. 6d., containing Latin extracts for translation on the following subjects-Easy Fables, Mythology, Biography, The History of Rome, and Ancient Geography; with a suitable Dictionary. The second volume, which is publishing in weekly numbers price 2d. each, will consist of useful Latin Exercises, or English sentences, to be translated into Latin, with numerous references to Andrews and Stoddart's Latin Grammar, & valuable treatise now in the press.

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ON PHYSICS OR NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

No. V.

LAWS OF FALLING BODIES, INTENSITY OF
GRAVITY, &c.

Falling Bodies. The three laws of Falling Bodies are the
following, which are only strictly accurate when the conside
ration of the resistance of the air is omitted; or, in other
words, when the bodies fall in a perfect vacuum.

Fig. 11.

1st Law: All bodies, large or small, fall with equal rapidity
to the earth's surface, at the same place. This law is proved
by the following experiment, called the guinea and feather expe-
riment. Take a tube of glass of about two yards in length, and
a convenient diameter, fig. 11, closed at one of its extremities,
and furnished at the other with a brass stop-cock; put into this
tube, placed vertically, with the closed end lowest, any two
bodies of different densities, such as lead and cork, gold and
paper, &c., and make a vacuum in it with
an air-pump; then quickly invert the
tube, by placing the closed end uppermost,
and keep it in the vertical position; you
will now see the light body and the heavy
body, such as the guinea and the feather,
both fall to the other end of the tube
with the same velocity. Readmit a little
air by opening the stop-cock, invert the
tube in the same manner as before, and
you will see the light body falling more
slowly than the heavy one, in proportion
to its comparative weight. Lastly, re-
admit the air completely, perform the
same inversion, and you will find that
the light body falls still more slowly than
before, in consequence of the greater effect
of the resistance of the air when fully
admitted into the tube. The conclusion
from these experiments is, that if in the
ordinary circumstances of the atmosphere
bodies fall to the ground with unequal
velocity, the cause of this is the resistance
of the air, which is more sensibly observed
on the lighter bodies, and not from any
difference in the action of gravity upon
different substances, for it acts alike upon
all substances, making them fall from the
same height in the same time in a vacuum.
Moreover, under equal volume, all bodies
experience the same resistance of the air in
falling; but the force with which they are
attracted overcomes this resistance in pro-
portion to their mass.

The resistance of the air to falling
bodies is particularly evident in the case
of liquids. When they fall in the air,
they separate and fall in drops; but when
they fall in a vacuum, they fall like a solid
mass, without separating into drops. This
phenomena is proved by the apparatus
called the water-hammer; this is a tube
of glass of about an inch in diameter,
and about a foot or sixteen inches long,
nearly half filled with water and hermeti-
cally sealed, after the air has been expelled
by raising the water to the boiling point.
When this tube is quickly inverted, the
water in falling strikes against its lower end with a smart
dry sound like that of the collision of two solid bodies.

2nd Law. The velocity acquired by a body falling in a vacuum is proportional to the time of falling. Thus, at the end of 2, 3, 4, &c., times a given unit of time, the velocity acquired will be 2, 3, 4, &c., times the velocity acquired in

that unit.

3rd Law. The spaces described by a body falling in a vacuum, are proportional to the squares of the times of falling. Thus, if the times of falling be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c., times a given unit of time, the spaces described will be 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, &c. times the space described in that unit.

Since, according to the third law, the space described in the

VOL. IV.

1st unit of time is 1, and the spaces described in 2, 3, 4, 5, &c., units of time, are 4, 9, 16, 25, &c., it follows that the space described in the 2nd unit of time is 4 less 1, that is, 3; in the 3rd unit it is 9 less 4, that is, 5; in the 4th unit, 16 less 9, that is, 7; and so on. Hence, the spaces described in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, &c., units of time are successively 1, 3, 5, 7, &c., according to the series of odd numbers. From this it is evident that the spaces described increase by equal quantities in equal times, which is in accordance with the definition already given of uniformly accelerated motion.

in a vacuum, and from heights in the atmosphere differing The laws of falling bodies are only true when the bodies fall little from each other in comparison with the radius of the earth. When the bodies fall in the air, these laws are modified by the resistance of the atmosphere; and when they fall from very unequal heights in the atmosphere, the force of gravity is not strictly the same.

Galileo, an Italian philosopher and Florentine nobleman, Was the first who made the discovery of these laws, and where he was professor of the mathematics in 1611 A.D. announced them to the students of the university of Pisa,

Inclined Plane.-Various apparatus have been invented for the purpose of proving the laws of falling bodies; Galileo employed the inclined plane in an original manner; Atwood invented the machine known by his name; and M. Morin, director of the "Conservatoire des Arts and Metiers" at Paris, constructed an apparatus first proposed by M. Poncelet.

An inclined plane is one which makes with a horizontal plane any angle less than a right angle. In proportion to the smallness of the angle between these planes, so is the decrease of the velocity of a body which descends along the inclined plane. Thus, let A B, fig. 12, represent an inclined plane, a c the horizontal plane, and вc a perpendicular to the horizontal

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plane drawn from any point n in the inclined plane. If any body м rest upon this inclined plane, its weight P acting vertically may be resolved into two forces a and F, the one acting in a perpendicular and the other in a parallel direction to the inclined plane a c. The first force, a, will be completely counteracted by the resistance of the inclined plane which acts in the direction a G, and the other force F only will act on the mass of the body м in order to make it descend along the plane.

In order to ascertain the value of the force F, take on the line GP a length the number of whose units represents the weight P, and complete the parallelogram DGEH; then the force F will be represented by the number of units of length in GD. But the triangles D G H and ABC are similar, because their angles are equal (Cassell's Euclid, Book VI., Prop. IV.); whence we have

GH DG :: AB: BC, or
P: F ::AB: BC;

that is, the force F will be less than the weight P, in proportion
as the height Bc of the inclined plane is less than its length A C.
we please, by
Thus we can make the force F as small as
diminishing the height of the plane, or the angle which it
makes with the horizon, and thus slacken the motion of the
moveable body M, so as to be able to take account of the
described in one, two, three, &c., seconds, and
altering the laws of the motion, since the
or constant. By such experiments as this
that the spaces described increased as
times.

Atwood's Machine.-The laws of fall
were more clearly demonstrated expe
a machine invented by Mr. Atwood, F
the University of Cambridge. This n
narrow wooden pillar, about seven 2

Fig. 13.

THE POPULAR EDUCATOR.

(m+2)=mg; whence x =

mg m+2x

having on the top a glass case, in which is placed a brass pulley | the weight m to fall by itself, now puts in motion this weight R, fig. 13. Over this pulleypasses a silken thread, so fine that its and the two other weights м and M'. The quantity of motion, weight need not be taken into account, and having two equal or momentum, will therefore be still the same. If we denote weights M and M' sus- the velocity of the mass at the end of a second by z, the pended at its extremities. momentum will be (m+2); and by putting this equal to the The axle of the pulley, momentem of m, when it falls alone, we have the equation instead of resting on two fixed bearings, is supported on the circumfeThus, if the weights rences of four moveabie M and M' were each 16, the weight m being unity or 1, we wheels. By this arrangement the axle of the should have x = pulley transmits its motion to the four wheels, and the sliding friction of fixed bearings is converted into the rolling friction of the wheels, a contrivance by which the friction of the axle is very

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much diminished.

On the pillar is fixed a clock-movement H, which regulates a seconds' pendulum P by means of an anchor escapement. This escapement is shown on the dial-plate above the swing-wheel which occupies the centre. This escapement oscillates with the pendulum, and inclining to the right and left alternately at each oscillation, it allows one

tooth of the swing-wheel to escape. The axis of this wheel carries at its anterior extremity an index marking seconds, and at its posterior extremity, behind the dial-plate, an eccentric, shown at E on the left of the pillar. This eccentric moves with the index, and presses on a lever D, which, by its motion, overturns a small platform 1, employed to support the mass M'. Parallel to the pillar, and fastened to its base,

is a wooden scale of nearly

into inches and tenths of

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; that is, the velocity of the mass would be only one thirty-third part of the velocity which it would have if it fell freely in the air. By this means we can more easily ascertain the nature of the force which causes bodies to fall, and also render the resistance of the air imperceptible.

the spaces described by a falling body increase as the squares The first experiment performed by this machine proves that of the times. The pendulum P being at rest, and the second form 1, and is loaded with the additional weight m, the whole index being beyond zero, the weight M' is placed on the platbeing kept in the horizontal position by the extremity of the lever D, and corresponding to zero on the scale. Removing then the hollow stage n, and preserving only the final stage A, place the latter, by trials, at such a distance from the zero point at 1, that from this point to the stage A the weights # and м take only one second in falling, the fall commencing at the instant when the pendulum having been put in motion the index reaches zero on the dial-plate; for at this point the lever D is put in motion by the eccentric, and the platform I is overturned, setting the weights m and м at liberty to fall.

the space descended in a second, to be seven divisions of the
Suppose now that we have found the height of the fall, or
scale; then repeat the experiment as before, but remove the
the preceding distance, that is, to the 28th division of the
stage a to a distance from the zero point 1, equal to four times
scale, and it will be seen that this space is described in
manner it will be found that at a distance nine times the first,
exactly two seconds by the two weights m and M'. In like
or at the 63rd division of the scale, the space will be described
in three seconds; and so on. The third law is, therefore,
verified by experiment.

recollected that in accelerated motion the velocity at a given
In order to verify the second law by experiment, it must be
instant is that of the uniform motion which follows upon the
accelerated motion. Hence, in order to discover according to
what law the velocity of a falling body varies, we have only
to measure the velocity of the uniform motions which imme
two, three, &c., seconds of the fall.
diately follow the accelerated motions successively after one,

rated motion is obtained by means of the stage B. This i The determination of the uniform motion after the accele the same length, divided placed just at the distance from the zero of the scale which the an inch, used for the in the first experiment; then, the additional weight being two weights m and M' when descending reached in a second, as purpose of measuring the stopped in its descent by the stage B, the weight M' continues spaces described by the to descend alone, until it be stopped by the stage ▲, which is scale are two stages A and B, which by means of tangent occupy only one second in passing from B to A. Now, from t falling body. On this screws can be adjusted to any required height. The stage to the motion is uniformly accelerated, and from B to A it is placed below в at such a distance as that the weight a' shall A is intended to receive the weight M' at the end of its course; uniform; for the weight m being stopped by the stage 3 and the stage B, which is hollow, allows this weight to pass gravity no longer acts from B to A, and the motion is only through it, and is used only to stop the progress of the addi- continued in consequence of the inertia of the weight M'. The tional weight m which rests upon it at starting. The use of number of the divisions of the scale passed over by the weight Atwood's machine is to diminish the velocity of a falling from the one stage to the other will then represent the body, and to produce at pleasure a uniform motion, or a velocity acquired by the two weights m and a' at the end of

motion uniformly accelerated.

In order to understand the nature of this machine, suppose that a small piece of brass m, which in the engraving rests on the stage B, falls alone; let its velocity at the end of a second be denoted by g; its momentum or quantity of motion will then be denoted by mg. If this piece of brass m be placed on the weight M', when at the top of the scale, it will descend and communicate part of its motion to the two weights M and M'; for previously to this, the two weights being equal were in equilibrium, the action of gravity in each being mutually alanced. It is plain that the same force which would cause

one second.

descend from the point I to the stage B; the stage A is then
In repeating this experiment, the stage в is lowered to such
lowered to a distance from в double of that at which it was in
a distance that the two weights m and M' take two seconds to
the first experiment. Thus, the two weights fall during two
seconds in a state of uniformly accelerated motion; then reach-
ing the stage B, the weight Malone passes over the interval
between the stage в and the stage A.
at the end of two seconds is therefore double of that acquired
at the end of one second. Similar experiments being made for
The velocity acquired

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three, four, &c., seconds, it will be found that the velocities acquired are three, four, &c., times the velocity acquired at the end of the first second; and thus the second law is verified. M. Morin's Apparatus. In this apparatus, or continued indicator of mot.cn, the uniform rotatory motion of a cylinder covered with paper is combined with the motion of a falling body, in such a manner that by means of a pencil properly adjusted for the purpose, it describes on the paper a curve which represents the law of the motion. In fig. 14, the cylinder A, which is covered with paper, is about 9 feet in height, and about 16 inches in diameter; this cylinder is set in motion by a weight r, and this motion is communicated by means of a cord to the drum B; this drum, by means of two bevelled wheels, communicates the motion to a rod H and to a wheel and pinion I and o, which put the cylinder a in motion.

to guide a long wooden ruler which is applied to the cylinder, and is used to trace on its surface two kinds of equidistant lines, the one in planes perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder, and the other vertical.

The cast-iron piece, or monkey, M, guided in its descent by two straight iron wires, F and G, firmly fixed at their extremities, is placed at first in a catch at D, which can be opened at pleasure by drawing the wire L. To this monkey м is fastened at R the pencil which describes, during its descent, the curve 8 R on the cylinder as it revolves. From the form of this curve the laws of motion are deduced.

For the space passed over by the pencil at the end of any given time, is at the point m of the curve equal to the portion am of the vertical traced on the surface of the cylinder. But the motion of the cylinder being uniform, we can take for the duration of the fall, when the moveable has descended to m, the arc hm, between the point m and the vertical which is Fig. 14.

The weight P having a tendency to accelerate its motion during its descent, M. Wagner, the maker of the apparatus, em

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ployed, for the purpose of regulating the motion of the drum B, a regulator of which the mechanism is concealed in the figure. It is known in mechanics, however, by the name of the differential motion, and it depends both on the motion of a pendulum c, and of a fly furnished with leaves, which moves with great rapidity. This fly is contained in a drum T, which rises or falls according to the velocity of the apparatus. When the motion is accelerated and the pendulum oscillates too rapidly, the drum rises, and the leaves of the fly then meeting with the resistance of the air, the motion is retarded. On the other hand, when the velocity diminishes, the drum is lowered, and the fly then meeting with less resistance from the air, the motion is accelerated. Thus a motion sensibly uniform is obtained; and for this purpose the descent of the weight P for about 20 inches is sufficient.

The wheel N, fixed on the axis of the cylinder, is employed

drawn through the point at the origin, or the beginning of the motion of the pencil. In like manner, at any other point m, of the curve, the space passed over is represented by a m" and the time by h'm'. Now, by comparing the lengths a m and a'm' with the arcs hm and 'm', we find that the lengths or distances a m and a'm' are to one another as the squares of their corresponding arcs; thus it is clearly demonstrated that the spaces passed over are to one another as the squares of the times of passing over; and we therefore conclude that the motion of falling bodies is one uniformly accelerated.

The ratio which is found to subsist between the arcs hm, 'm', &c., and the verticals am, a'm', &c., show that the curve SR is a parabola whose axis is parallel to the generatrix of the cylinder; and this is at once demonstrated by unfolding on a plane the paper cover of the cylinder on which the curve is traced by the pencil

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