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Electricity produced by Rotation - Direction of the Currents — Electricity from the Rotation of a Magnet — M. Arago's Experiment explained Rotation of a Plate of Iron between the Poles of a Magnet Relation of Substances to Magnets of ...
Electricity produced by Rotation - Direction of the Currents — Electricity from the Rotation of a Magnet — M. Arago's Experiment explained Rotation of a Plate of Iron between the Poles of a Magnet Relation of Substances to Magnets of ...
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But , as our planet is flattened at the poles ( N. 11 ) , and bulges at the equator , the weight of the same body ... or part of the earth intermediate between the pole and the equator , where the attraction of the earth on bodies at ...
But , as our planet is flattened at the poles ( N. 11 ) , and bulges at the equator , the weight of the same body ... or part of the earth intermediate between the pole and the equator , where the attraction of the earth on bodies at ...
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But if the mass revolve about an axis , it becomes flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator ( N. 11 ) , in consequence of the centrifugal force arising from the velocity of rotation ( N. 30 ) ; for the centrifugal force ...
But if the mass revolve about an axis , it becomes flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator ( N. 11 ) , in consequence of the centrifugal force arising from the velocity of rotation ( N. 30 ) ; for the centrifugal force ...
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Such is the form of the earth and planets . pression ( N. 31 ) or flattening at their poles is , however , so small , that even Jupiter , whose rotation is the most rapid , and therefore the most elliptical of the planets , may , from ...
Such is the form of the earth and planets . pression ( N. 31 ) or flattening at their poles is , however , so small , that even Jupiter , whose rotation is the most rapid , and therefore the most elliptical of the planets , may , from ...
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... the motion of the earth in its orbit ; and its rotation is proved by the theory of falling bodies , since the centrifugal force it induces retards the oscillations of the pendulum ( N. 100 ) in going from the pole to the equator .
... the motion of the earth in its orbit ; and its rotation is proved by the theory of falling bodies , since the centrifugal force it induces retards the oscillations of the pendulum ( N. 100 ) in going from the pole to the equator .
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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