Elementary Dynamics

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G. Bell and sons, 1905 - 318 páginas
 

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Página 106 - The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
Página 34 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by forces to change that state.
Página 42 - If a moving point possess simultaneously velocities which are represented in magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from a point, they are equivalent to a velocity which is represented in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through the point.
Página 33 - Force is that which changes, or tends to change, the state of rest or uniform motion of a body.
Página 87 - ... instant. Required the latitude of the place of observation. 5. Given the latitude of the place, and the sun's declination: find at what time of the day the azimuth of the sun increases the slowest. 6. Investigate, as Cotes has done, the variation of the density of the atmosphere, supposing the force of gravity to vary inversely as the square of the distance from the earth's centre.

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