Law of gravitation: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. The Intellectual Observer - Page 3571863Full view - About this book
| 1922 - 868 pages
...some unknown level. On these views Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportional to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square... | |
| William Marshall Smart - 1928 - 354 pages
...Newton suggested that it was fundamentally a property of matter, and stated his great law of universal gravitation : " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
| 1916 - 574 pages
...the previously known laws of falling bodies and from astronomical observations. According to his law, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force which is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the... | |
| United States. Defense Intelligence Agency - 1967 - 266 pages
...See resurvey. Newtonian constant of gravitation — See constant of gravitation. Newton's laws — 1. (gravitation) Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
| United States. Army Topographic Command - 1969 - 292 pages
...See resurvey. Newtonian constant of gravitation— See constant of gravitation. Newton's laws— 1. (gravitation) Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - 1975 - 1776 pages
...closed system, all the heat lost by the wanner bodies is gained by the colder ones. Law of universal gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - 1975 - 1198 pages
...closed system, all the heat lost by the warmer bodies is gained by the colder ones. Law of universal gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional... | |
| Claus E. Rolfs, William S. Rodney - 1988 - 579 pages
...explaining Kepler's geometrical description of the planetary system by a single comprehensive physical law, the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the... | |
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