| Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 454 pages
...thus, " A Physico-Mathematical PROBLEM, with its SOLUTIOW. " PROBLEM. Supposing the law of attraction to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance, to ßnd the nature of the solid of the greatest attraction. " Solution, by Mr. St. James. (( It is... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...motion of a body or material point attracted towards two Jhcd centres, supposing the attraction of each to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. Let us consider, first, the case in which the body is situated on a right line which joins the centres... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1857 - 422 pages
...experiments on the absolute force of attraction and repulsion between two magnetized bodies, which he found to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. When in the case of attraction, the magnets however were nearly approximated in relation to their respective... | |
| Giuseppe Barilli - 1860 - 408 pages
...increased and diminished intensity was not the same for the attraction as for the repulsion. The former was to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance ; the latter was to be in the inverse ratio of the CUBE of the same distance. 22. By this simple and... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 424 pages
...between these two quantities would establish the law of the decrease of the earth's power of attraction to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. It will be seen that to compute how far a body would fall in one second, when removed to the moon's... | |
| Isaac Newton - Earth - 1900 - 182 pages
...diminution of the length of the pendulum, or of the attraction, ought then to be the ^ith part, if it is to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance ; but it was by no means so great — in fact, only the ^^th part. 42. This diminution in attraction,... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1860 - 526 pages
...powerful. Thirdly ; Ritchie's Induction Apparatus (or, as the maker calls it, Ritchie's Rhumkorff 's Induction Apparatus) is an apparatus in which, by...meeting in March (see Jour. Frank. Inst., vol. xxxix, p. ?>85), let us inquire into its novelty and its probable utility. Any student of electric science or... | |
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