 | Linnaeus Cumming - 1885 - 410 pages
...uniform, and is always taken as the practical means of measuring time. 11. LAW II. Change of mot,on is proportional to the impressed force, and takes...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Newton in this law says nothing about the state of rest or motion of the body on which the force... | |
 | 1885 - 580 pages
...straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. 2. Every change of motion is proportional to the impressed...takes place in the direction of the straight line iu which the force acts. 8. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction, or, the... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 400 pages
...read it, not in his own words, but in a translation. He says : ' Change of motion is proportional to force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts' Now, for the century and a half since Newton's time, mathematicians and natural philosophers... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook, Napier Shaw - 1885 - 516 pages
...proportional to the third power of their linear dimensions, or V oc /*. (2.) The rate of change of momentum is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed (Second Law of Motion), or yoc ma. (3.) The pressure at any point of... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1886 - 252 pages
...without difficulty. Illustrations of the law will be noticed as they may be met with. 34. Second Law :— Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. Here the words 'change of motion'1 signify 'change of quantity of motion? For simplicity,... | |
 | Richard Wormell - 1887 - 282 pages
...to alter the period of the earth's rotation about its axis. 63. The Second Law of Motion. — Clumge of motion is proportional to the impressed force,...direction of the straight line in which the force ads. The facts implied by negation in the second law are as important as those actually affirmed, and... | |
 | Sir William Anderson - 1887 - 272 pages
...the other laws of motion. The second law of motion tells us that " change of -motion is proportioned to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts." It is to be noted here that a force always produces an effect, and that by tha word " motion"... | |
 | William Todd Martin - 1887 - 344 pages
...seems right in the face of Newton's second law of motion — that change of motion is proportioned to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Mr. Spencer may take refuge in the distinction between molar and molecular motion, and thus try... | |
 | John Greaves - 1888 - 302 pages
...which the forces may be measured. The answer is contained in Newton's 2nd Law, which asserts that ' Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of that force '. By Change of Motion is meant Change of Momentum in some fixed time, the unit of time... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1888 - 569 pages
...secundum lineam rectam qua vis ilia imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional to force applied, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 252. If any force generates motion, a double force will generate double motion, and so on, whether... | |
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Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 
