| 1882 - 662 pages
...alter, a body's state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line. ' 2nd. Change of motion ip proportional to the impressed force ; and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. ' 3rd. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction.' Nothing could... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...referring to small and trivial cases as well as to the grandest phenomena we can conceive. 60. LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. We have considered change of velocity, or acceleration, as a purely geometrical quantity,... | |
| George Farrer Rodwell - 1871 - 620 pages
...and if it be in motion it will continue to move in the same straight line with uniform speed. Law II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force art». When a person is on board a boat which is moving uniformly along a stream, any movement... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - 1871 - 462 pages
...referring to small and trivial cases as well as to the grandest phenomena we can conceive. 65. LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...force, and takes place in the direction of the straight ''ne in which the force acts. We have considered change of velocity, or acceleration, as a purely geometrical... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1872 - 316 pages
...proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qud vis ilia imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 218. If any force generates motion, a double force will generate double motion, and... | |
| Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1874 - 336 pages
...we pass on to examine the exact relation between force and the motion which it produces. Second Law. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. Hitherto it has been sufficient to speak of the motion of bodies, without regarding... | |
| Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1874 - 340 pages
...we pass on to examine the exact relation between force and the motion which it produces. Second Law. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. Hitherto it has been sufficient to speak of the motion of bodies, without regarding... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 848 pages
...line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. id. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. 3</. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the... | |
| S. Parkinson - 1874 - 420 pages
...proportionalem esse vi motrici impress^, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qud vis ilia •imprimitur. " Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts." LEX III. Actioni contrariam semper et cequalem esse reactionem: sive, corporum duorum... | |
| W. G. Willson - 1874 - 294 pages
...motion. This leads to the enunciation of the second law. 7. LAW II. — The change in the quantity of motion is proportional to the impressed force,...place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. By the change of the quantity of motion is here to be understood the change of momentum... | |
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