| George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - 1898 - 456 pages
...: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. The mathematical statement of the law is as follows : kmm' TTT __ Where m and... | |
| Alfred Payson Gage - 1898 - 416 pages
...is as follows : The gravitation stress between every two particles of matter in the universe varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. If the masses of two bodies be represented by m and m', the distance between... | |
| Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 pages
...are at a finite distance apart than when they are infinitely distant from one another, by an amount which is directly as the product of their masses and inversely as their distance apart. This statement, it is to be particularly observed, contains no allusion to attraction... | |
| George T. Lemmon - 1899 - 452 pages
...rule: " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses, and inversely...square of the distance between them."]; This is the law of universal gravitation — the law that once grasped beholds God immanent in all his works. A... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1899 - 364 pages
...other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other. Thus, if M, m, are the masses, D their distance, their attraction (ie... | |
| Francis Alexander Tarleton - 1899 - 309 pages
...result, it may be concluded that any two particles of matter attract each other ivith a force varying directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the intervening distance. 2. Electric Forces. — With respect to electric phenomena, bodies are usually... | |
| 1899 - 730 pages
...due to the fact that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Fortunately, the question is of little importance, for there is no doubt about... | |
| Eugene Lommel - 1899 - 698 pages
...at a distance, r, between centres to attract •each other with a force, /. —^ , ie, with a force, directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances. The factor, /, which is constant for all masses, and -which must be derived from observation,... | |
| Carl Schoepffer - 1900 - 92 pages
...concentrated at its centre) seems to be, that the attraction of all bodies toward the earth varies as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance from the centre of the earth. Experiments with magnets are said to have disclosed the law... | |
| George Cary Comstock - 1901 - 444 pages
...other particle with a force whose direction is that of a line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other." We know that we ourselves and the things about us are pulled toward... | |
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