| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient...this power continues to impel it during the whole of its descent, and it is this continued impulse which accelerates its motion. Emily. I do not quite... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient...will continue to move with a uniform velocity; but th<: stone is not acted upon by gravity merely at the first instant of its fall, this power continues... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient...observed, a body having been once acted upon by a focce, will continue to move with a uniform velocity; but the stone is not acted upon by gravity merely... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...continually increased: (When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it re* ceives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient...upon by gravity merely at the first instant of its fall—this power continues to impel it during the whole of its descent, and it is this continued impulse... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient to bring it to the ground with a uniform velocity ; but the stone is not acted upon by gravity merely at the first instant of its fall, — this power... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient to bring it to the ground with a uniform velocity ; but the stone is not acted upon by gravity merely at the first instant of its fall, — this power... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Civilization - 1833 - 370 pages
...instant of its fall, would be sufficient to bring it to the ground with a uniform velocity j but ihe stone is not acted upon by gravity merely at the first...this power continues to impel it during the whole of its descent, and it is this continued impulse which accelerates its motion. It has been found by... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1836 - 540 pages
...impulse which it receives from gravity during th< first instant of its fall, would be sufficient to brin< it to the ground with a uniform velocity : for, as we have observed, a body having been once acted upoi by a force, will continue to move with a uniforn velocity. But the stone is not acted upon by... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...or nore forces. Thus, when a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity would be sufficient to bring it to the ground, with a uniform velocity. But the stone while falling at this rate is still acted upon by gravity with an additional force, which... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...continually increased. When a stone falls from a height, the impulse which it receives from gravity during the first instant of its fall, would be sufficient...have observed, a body having been once acted upon bv a force, will continue to move with a uniform velocity. But the stone is not acted upon by gravity... | |
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