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" And as the resistance to the passage of the spark seems to be in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance ; this power ought to be able to pass across more than seven thousand openings of £-inch each. "
The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine - Page 134
1860
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The Mathematical Questions Proposed in the Ladies' Diary: And ..., Volume 4

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...
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Encyclopędia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge ..., Volume 3

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...
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Manual of Electricity: Including Galvanism, Magnetism ..., Volume 10767

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...
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Miranda, a book on the neo-Christian religion [by G. Barilli].

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...
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Popular Astronomy: A Concise Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets ...

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...
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The Laws of Gravitation: Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, Together ...

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,...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 70

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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