A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition : in Two Volumes, Volume 2W. E. Dean, 1831 |
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... position , they all pass through the centre of the sphere , and consequently through the axis of the said circle . The same thing may be affirmed with regard to small circles . 10. Hence , in order to find the poles of any circle , it ...
... position , they all pass through the centre of the sphere , and consequently through the axis of the said circle . The same thing may be affirmed with regard to small circles . 10. Hence , in order to find the poles of any circle , it ...
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... positions , have never been able to develope the properties of this class of geometrical quantities ; but have affirmed that no solid angle can be said to be the half or the double of another , and have spoken of the bisection and ...
... positions , have never been able to develope the properties of this class of geometrical quantities ; but have affirmed that no solid angle can be said to be the half or the double of another , and have spoken of the bisection and ...
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... position of those planes , that is , in the magni- tude of the solid angle , without a corresponding and propor- tional mutation in the surface of the spherical triangle . If , in like manner , the three or more surfaces , which by ...
... position of those planes , that is , in the magni- tude of the solid angle , without a corresponding and propor- tional mutation in the surface of the spherical triangle . If , in like manner , the three or more surfaces , which by ...
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... positions of the principal places , whether on the coast or inland , in an island or kingdom ; with a view to ... position of some important points , as the Lizard , not being known within seven minutes of a degree ; and , until ...
... positions of the principal places , whether on the coast or inland , in an island or kingdom ; with a view to ... position of some important points , as the Lizard , not being known within seven minutes of a degree ; and , until ...
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... position of the point M ' . By bending down thus in imagination , one after another , the parts of the meridian on the corresponding horizontal triangles , we may obtain , by the aid of the computation , the direction and the length of ...
... position of the point M ' . By bending down thus in imagination , one after another , the parts of the meridian on the corresponding horizontal triangles , we may obtain , by the aid of the computation , the direction and the length of ...
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Page 467 - Or, by an. 249 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Page 74 - To prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (see fig.
Page 203 - VI, its Corollaries and Scholium, for Constant Forces, are true in the Motions of. Bodies freely descending by their own Gravity ; namely, that the Velocities are as the Times, and the Spaces as the Squares of the Times, or as the Squares of the Velocities. FOR, since the force of gravity is uniform, and constantly the same, at all places near the earth's surface, or at nearly the same distance from the centre of the earth ; and since • this is the force by which bodies descend to the surface ;...
Page 247 - BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Page 297 - The workmen thought that substituting part silver was only a proper <perquisite; which taking air, Archimedes was appointed to examine it ; who, on putting...
Page 35 - Two planes are said to have the same or a like inclination to one another which two other planes have, when the said angles of inclination are equal to one another.
Page 83 - Let a, b, c, be the sides, and A, B, c, the angles of a spherical triangle, on the surface of a sphere whose radius is r ; then...
Page 393 - Multiply the number in the table of multiplicands, by the breadth and square of the depth, both in inches, and divide that product by the length, also, in inches; the quotient will be the weight in Jbs.t Example 1.
Page 252 - Weigh the denser body and the compound mass, separately, both in water and out of it ; then find how much each loses in water, by subtracting its weight in water from its weight in air ; and subtract the less of these remainders from the greater. Then...
Page 148 - Body is either Hard, Soft, or Elastic. A Hard Body is that whose parts do not yield to any stroke or percussion, but retains its figure unaltered. A Soft Body is that whose parts yield^to any stroke or impression, without restoring themselves again ; the figure of the body remaining altered.