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An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use ... - Page 177
by Denison Olmsted - 1844 - 592 pages
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Elements of Physics: Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical ..., Volume 1

Neil Arnott - 1827 - 692 pages
...but the little one would perform a greater part of the journey, just in proportion to its littleness. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...the boat : but he really moves the ship a little, for a thousand men in a thousand boats, pulling in the same way at the same time, would make the ship...
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Elements of Physics: Or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical, Volume 1

Neil Arnott - 1829 - 542 pages
...meet: but the little one would perform a greater part of the journey, in proportion to its littleness. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...move the boat: but he really moves the ship a little, for a thousand men in a thousand boats, pulling simultaneously in the same way, would make the ship...
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Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, Volume 1

1833 - 426 pages
...pendulums, they would approach and meet ; but the little one would perform more than half of the journey. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...the boat : but he really moves the ship a little, for, supposing the resistance of the ship to be just a thousand times greater than that of the boat,...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - 1837 - 374 pages
...man in a boat pulls at a rope attached to another boat of equal weight, the boats will move towards each other with equal velocities ; but a man in a...of lead and the earth attract each other with equal forces, and the two bodies approach each other with equal momenta. (See Art. 8.) 52. Since momentum...
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Elements of Physics: Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical ..., Volume 1

Neil Arnott - 1838 - 596 pages
...approach and meet ; but the little one would perform more of the journey in proportion to its littleness. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...the boat : but he really moves the ship a little, for, supposing the resistance of the ship to be just a thousand times greater than that of the boat,...
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Elements of Physics: Or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical

Neil Arnott - 1841 - 560 pages
...approach and meet; but the little one would perform more of the journey in proportion to its littleness. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...move the boat: but he really moves the ship a little, for, supposing the resistance of the ship to be just a thousand times greater than that of the boat,...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - 1842 - 384 pages
...man in a boat pulls at a rope attached to another boat of equal weight, the boats will move towards each other with equal velocities ; but a man in a...that of the boat as its weight is greater. A pound i of lead and the earth attract each other with equal forces, and the two bodies approach each other...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Volume 1

1842 - 496 pages
...approach and meet ; but the little one would perform more of the journey in proportion to its littleness. A man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large...the boat : but he really moves the ship a little, for, supposing the resistance of the ship to be just a thousand times greater than that of the boat,...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - 1846 - 454 pages
...man in a boat pulls at a rope attached to another boat of equal weight, the boats will move towards each other with equal velocities ; but a man in a...of lead and the earth attract each other with equal forces, and the two bodies approach each other with equal momenta. (See Art. 8.) 52. Since momentum...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - 1851 - 492 pages
...man in a boat pulls at a rope attached to another boat of equal weight, the boats will move towards each other with equal velocities ; but a man in a boat pulling a rope attached to a large ship State the proposition respecting the collision of two perfectly elastic bodies Case of two equal bodies,...
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