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...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,...

...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,...

...they would approach and meet ; but the little one would perform more than half of the journey. 23. 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,...

...; 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...

...being communicated to the series from the first body. Case of a boot and a ship. seems only to move tUe boat. but he really moves the ship a little. although...of lead and the earth attract each other with equal forces. and the two bodies approach each other with equal momenta. (See Art 8.) This law of motion...