 that every particle of matter attracts every other particle, and suspected that the attraction varied as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them; but it is certain that he did not then know what the attraction...  The Cambridge Modern History - Page 7131908Full view - About this book
 | Technology - 1855 - 708 pages
...to do with the matter, and we say the bodies themselves exert a mutual attraction, varying directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centres of gravity. This is, as we view it, the argument for the law of gravitation... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 518 pages
...expressed as follows: Any two bodies exert upon each other a mutual attraction, which varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance apart. Effect of Gravitation on the Planets. 35. It is by the influence of gravitation... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 524 pages
...expressed as follows: Any two bodies exert upon each other a mutual attraction, which varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance apart. Effect of Gravitation on the Planets. 35. It is by the influence of gravitation... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...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. Experiment shows (as will be seen further on) that the same law holds... | |
 | Osmund Airy - Geometrical optics - 1870 - 606 pages
...104, when two bodies in space are considered, since in such cases the attractive force varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. The same attraction holds between two opposite " poles of magnets or between... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...expressed as follows : Any two bodies exert îtpon each other a mutual attraction, which -varies directly as the product of their masses^ and inversely as the square of their distance apart. lîiïect of Gravitation pn tho Planet*. .and then continually drawn from the... | |
 | a. privat deschanel - 1873 - 1076 pages
...derivation employed. It is well known that uniform spheres attract each other with a force which is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centres. If this law were made to furnish the unit of force, the dimensions... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - Physics - 1874 - 304 pages
...derivation employed. It is well known that uniform spheres attract each other with a force which is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centres. If this law were made to furnish the unit of force, the dimensions... | |
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