 | Hugh Charles Herbert Candy - 1918 - 704 pages
...published, in Latin, in 1687. The first law of motion may be literally translated thus : — Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by impressed force. This statement recognizes that matter possesses... | |
 | William Watson - 1920 - 590 pages
...assuming the correctness of Newton's first law of motion, which is enunciated as follows : — Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it be compelled by impressed force to change that state. This law may also be considered as a definition... | |
 | Lewis Raymond Smith - 1922 - 260 pages
...formulated by Sir Isaac Newton. A thorough understanding of these laws is very important. /. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state by an impressed force. II. Change of momentum is proportional to the... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - 1922 - 334 pages
...Newton, however, are simple and are based upon the experience of centuries. They are : a. Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it, 1 08 b. The change in motion is proportional... | |
 | Lewis Raymond Smith - 1922 - 248 pages
...formulated by Sir Isaac Newton. A thorough understanding of these laws is very important. I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state by an impressed force. II. Change of momentum is proportional to the... | |
 | Clement Vavasor Durell - 1928 - 386 pages
...universe of everyday life as the Euclidean system does of its geometry. The First Law of Motion Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled by the application of a force to change that state. This law gives us a definition of the... | |
 | John Gerald Frederick Druce - 1925 - 170 pages
...them increased. He also enunciated the three laws of motion associated with his name. 1. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by external forces. 2. The alteration of motion i* always proportional... | |
 | Scudder Klyce - 1925 - 442 pages
...discriminated from Many words — Newton being vague at that. Newton's first law of motion is :- every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it be compelled by impressed force to change that state. The law is abbreviated to this:- matter has... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - 1926 - 504 pages
...Precession. First we will take up "Rigidity in Space." Newton's First Law of Motion states that "every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled by forces to change that state." This law as applied to a rotating wheel, may be expressed... | |
 | Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale - 1927 - 634 pages
...Newton in 1686 formulated the following statement and called it the first law of motion : Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless impelled by external force to change that state. This property, which all matter possesses, of resisting... | |
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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. 
