...definition of the term font. To this I cannot subscribe. In the language of mechanical philosophy, any cause which alters, or tends to alter, a body's state of rest or motion, is called force. Suppose, as was generally believed, in the Pre-Galilsean period, there were an innate...

...of the term force. To this I cannot subscribe. In the language of mechanical philosophy, any cause which alters, or tends to alter, a body's state of rest or motion, is called force. Suppose, as was generally believed, in the Pre-Galilœan period, there were an innate...

...speaks simply of force. Even the mathematician's definition is wide enough to embrace them all — " force is that which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or motion." But, here I would remark, that if the full idea of force should not be included in a definition, it...

...treats of forces applied to bodies, either directly, or through the agency of some machine. Any cause which alters, or tends to alter a body's state of rest or motion, is called a Force. The force with which we are most familiar, is that which attracts every body on...

...employment of the word, Force. Accordingly, he gives one of his own. ' Force,' he writes, ' is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line 2 .' It is right to subjoin, that he limits this definition to...

...implicitly contained in Newton's First Law of Motion, and may be given thus : — Force is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight linc. "The only difficulty, and that is a serious one, which we feel...

...employment of the word, Force. Accordingly, he gives one of his own. ' Force,' he writes, 'is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line V It is right to subjoin, that he limits this definition to Force,...

...Maxwell, Tlttoiy of Heat, p. 83.) " The definition of Force xx may thus be given. — Force is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line." — (Tait, Recent Advances in Physical Science, p. 1C.) We have...

...body is not acted on by force. The law affords a definition of Force. 91. DEF.— Force is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line. 92. Of course we can never completely test this law by experiment,...

...is implicitly contained in Newton's first Law of Motion, and may thus be given : Force is any cause which alters or tends to alter a body's state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line. " The only difficulty, and it is a serious one, which we feel...