 | Charles Robert Cross - 1873 - 182 pages
...consider. It is frequently known as Newtorfs Law, from its discoverer, and may be stated as follows : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly in the compound ratio of their masses^ and inversely as the square of their distance.... | |
 | John Isaac Plummer - 1873 - 186 pages
...give the widest signification to this law, which we will now state in its fullest application : — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force varying directly as the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely as the square of t/ie distance... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 820 pages
...the enunciation of the general law of gravitation, as given by the author. It is as follows : — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of a line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 pages
...afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...and inversely to the square of the distance between them ' — a law, the troth of which, since it was first broached, has been put beyond all question... | |
 | 1874 - 868 pages
...afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting in 1576, used to assemble ; and here the mayor, aldermen, and city companies were wont to receive all... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 pages
...exactly true ; but we cannot calculate out in any one case its accurate results. The law asserts that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force depending on the masses of the particles and their distance. We cannot then know the force acting on... | |
 | W. G. Willson - 1874 - 294 pages
...of a projectile in air is too difficult a problem to be discussed here. 84. LAW OF GRAVITATION. — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force, in the direction of the line joining the two, whose magnitude is directly proportional to the product... | |
 | James Nasmyth, James Carpenter - 1874 - 308 pages
...solve the problem we have to appeal to Newton's law of universal gravitation. This law teaches us that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the mass, and inversely proportional to the square of the * distance... | |
 | John Nelson Stockwell - 1875 - 74 pages
...subjected to calculation by NEWTON. The theory when regarded as a law of nature may be stated as follows : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as its mass, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Mathematicians... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 pages
...millions of miles off, in preference to moving in any other direction, the answer given is that, " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product... | |
| |
that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every 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 distances... 
