 Newton's law of gravitation states that any two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, ie, (3.  The Fundamentals of Astronomy - Page 94by Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Charles Greeley Abbot - 1927 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Greeley Abbot - Astronomy - 1925 - 326 pages
...system without a peer. The prime laws of his sway are the three laws of Kepler and that of Newton, (1) The centers of the planets go in orbits which...of each was concentrated at a point in its center. The movements of a planet cannot be determined by considering its relations to the sun alone. All other... | |
 | Charles Greeley Abbot - Astronomy - 1925 - 322 pages
...system without a peer. The prime laws of his sway are the three laws of Kepler and that of Newton, (1) The centers of the planets go in orbits which...laws, just stated, can be derived from it. When the 63 separate attractions of all the particles of two separated spheres or spheroids are summed up, they... | |
 | Matthew Luckiesh, August John Pacini - Light - 1926 - 368 pages
...thought. Newton propounded the law of universal gravitation to the effect that bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The earth and an apple are two bodies possessing... | |
 | Frederick Edmund Sears - Physics - 1927 - 588 pages
...Gravitation. In 1685 Newton stated his "Law of Universal Gravitation " as follows: "All bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them." In applying this law the distances between... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - Logic - 1928 - 620 pages
...the distance between them. For larger bodies this means that each such body attracts every other body with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers of gravity. And in the case of a homogeneous... | |
 | Harry C. Kelly - Electricity - 1941 - 376 pages
...connection with one another. — JULIUS VON LIEBIG (1846). We have seen that two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between their centers. This law has been verified by bodies falling to... | |
 | Robin George Collingwood - Philosophy - 1960 - 194 pages
...possessed an attractive force acting upon every other particle with a strength directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely to the square of the distance between them. Now this gravitational force appears as a second cause of motion, conceived... | |
 | United States. Defense Intelligence Agency - Cartography - 1967 - 266 pages
...Newton's laws — 1. (gravitation) Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. 2. (motion) (1) Every body continues in its state of rest,... | |
 | United States. Army Topographic Command - Cartography - 1969 - 292 pages
...Newton's laws— 1. (gravitation) Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. 2. (motion) (1) Every body continues in its state of rest,... | |
 | Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White - Technology & Engineering - 1971 - 484 pages
...Principia, Newton formulated the law of gravity by stating that any two bodies attract one another with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. We can express this law mathematically in... | |
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