 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1837 - 358 pages
...another names and marks : of a different density. REPULSION, in pbysicks, that property in Indies, whereby, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other's at traction of cohesion, they mutually fly cancer from each other. ' ' RESISTANCE, in philosophy, denotes,... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...the earth downwards, it decreases only in a direct ratio to the distance from the centre. REPULSION. 1. REPULSION is that property in bodies, whereby,...needle gently laid upon water will swim. . MOTION. Absolute Motion, is the actual motion that bodies have, considered independently of each other, and... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...the earth downwards, it decreases only in a direct ratio to the distance from the centre. REPULSION. 1. REPULSION is that property in bodies, whereby,...a needle gently laid upon water will swim. MOTION. Absolute Motion, is the actual motion that bodies have, considered independently of each other, and... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Physics - 1846 - 148 pages
...causes the heavenly bodies to appear, more elevated above the horizon than they really are. REPULSION. That property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed...attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other RESISTANCE. In general auy power which acts in an opposite direction to another, SO as to destroy or... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...to appi-ur more ek-vated above the horizon than they really are. REGULUS. See Coa LxoNia. REPULSION. That property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed just beyond the spl1re of each other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually Hy from each other. RESISTANCE. In general,... | |
 | James Pilkington - Formulas, recipes, etc - 1847 - 536 pages
...other particle at all distances, but by no means with equal intensity at all distances. REPULSION. 1. REPULSION is that property in bodies, whereby,...laid upon water will swim. MOTION. 1. Absolute motion is the actual motion that bodies have, considered indepenri ntly of each other, and only with regard... | |
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REPULSION. 1. REPULSION is that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. 2. OIL refuses to mix with water, from the repulsion between the particles... 
