 Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between...  The Fundamentals of Astronomy - Page 11by Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Charles Greeley Abbot - 1927 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nautical astronomy - 1977 - 1412 pages
...only : Every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. From these fundamental laws of motion and gravitation, Newton derived Kepler's... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1855 - 640 pages
...PBOFZSSOR FABADAY ON XAGNETIO PHILOSOPHY, ETC. 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... | |
 | Technology - 1855 - 708 pages
...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 Jaw of gravitation... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1855 - 712 pages
...FABADAY OH MAGNETIC PHILOSOPHY, ETC. themselves exert a mutual attraction, \ .iry in;; 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... | |
 | Osmund Airy - Geometrical optics - 1870 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 456 pages
...whose dimensions are infinitely small in comparison with the distance between them, will be directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. "That it is as the product of the masses results from the consideration that... | |
 | William Garnett - 1875 - 332 pages
...force. The law of gravitation is, that the attraction between two material particles varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Hence, if TO,, m2 denote the masses of two particles expressed in terms of the... | |
 | De Volson Wood - Mechanics, Analytic - 1876 - 500 pages
...of universal gravitation is — Two particles attract each other with a stress directly proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them, Thus if m and m' are two masses considered concentrated at mere points — in... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Mechanical engineering - 1878 - 994 pages
...of the sphere; and hence the attraction of two homogeneous spheres for each other varies directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between their centres. It may also be shown by this law that the attraction of a perfectly... | |
 | Mathematics - 1878 - 410 pages
...whose dimensions are infinitely small in comparison with the distance between them, will be directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. That it is as the product of the masses, when the distance is constant, results... | |
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