A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Bindi 4J. Murray, 1822 - 50 síður |
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... electricity are produced by a fluid of peculiar nature , and therefore called the ELECTRIC FLUID , having the following properties : 2. First , Its particles repel each other , with a force de- creasing as the distances increase . 3 ...
... electricity are produced by a fluid of peculiar nature , and therefore called the ELECTRIC FLUID , having the following properties : 2. First , Its particles repel each other , with a force de- creasing as the distances increase . 3 ...
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... fluid that there shall be no tendency either to efflux or influx . But if the quantity be increased , and nothing ... electric fluid . 9. In order , therefore , to conceive distinctly the state of a body containing its natural quantity ...
... fluid that there shall be no tendency either to efflux or influx . But if the quantity be increased , and nothing ... electric fluid . 9. In order , therefore , to conceive distinctly the state of a body containing its natural quantity ...
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... electric fluid in it is pro- portional to the quantity of matter , every particle being united with an equal quantity of fluid . This , however , does not necessarily require that different kinds of matter , in their natural or ...
... electric fluid in it is pro- portional to the quantity of matter , every particle being united with an equal quantity of fluid . This , however , does not necessarily require that different kinds of matter , in their natural or ...
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... electric fluid depends entirely on the redundant fluid , or the redundant matter of the body . 14. The efflux or influx may be prevented , either by sur- rounding the body with substances , through the pores of which the fluid cannot ...
... electric fluid depends entirely on the redundant fluid , or the redundant matter of the body . 14. The efflux or influx may be prevented , either by sur- rounding the body with substances , through the pores of which the fluid cannot ...
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... electric fluid , we cannot have a permanent state till the fluid is similarly distributed , and equally divided , between the two halves of NS . There- fore a state like that assumed in this example cannot be per- manent in a conducting ...
... electric fluid , we cannot have a permanent state till the fluid is similarly distributed , and equally divided , between the two halves of NS . There- fore a state like that assumed in this example cannot be per- manent in a conducting ...
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Síða 353 - COMPASS, or the declination of the magnetic or mariner's needle from the meridian or true north and south line at the undermentioned places in the United Kingdom, estimated for the year 1875.
Síða 209 - Elsewhere, Prof. Robison remarks : " It is not saying too much of this work to affirm that it contains almost everything we know of magnetism. His unwearied diligence in searching every writing on the subject and in getting information from navigators, and his incessant occupation in experiments, have left very few facts unknown to him. We meet with many things in the writings of posterior inquirers, some of them of high reputation and of the present day, which are published and received as notable...
Síða 545 - PC, the tooth B continues to press on the pallet D, and thus accelerates the pendulum, both during its descent along the arch PH, and its ascent along the arch HG. It is no less evident, that when the pallet D, by turning round the axis XY, raises its point above the plane of the wheel, the tooth B escapes from it, and i drops on the pallet c, which is now nearly perpendicular. i presses c; to the right, and accelerates the motion of the pendulum along the arch GP.
Síða 411 - We are sorry to see this ; because we have great expectations from the future labours of this gentjeman in the field of harmonics, and his late work is rich in refined and valuable matter. We presume humbly to recommend to him attention to his own admonitions to a very young and ingenious gentleman, who, he thinks, proceeded too far in animadverting on the writings of Newton, Barrow, and other eminent mathematicians.
Síða 609 - Yet a ship is a machine. We know the forces which act on it, and we know the results of its construction — all these are as fixed as the laws of motion. What hinders this to be reduced to a set of practical maxims, as well founded and as logically deduced as the working of a steam-engine or a cotton-mill?
Síða 676 - ... all shivering: For these sails, continuing to draw with considerable force, and balancing each other tolerably fore and aft, keep up the ship's velocity very much, and thus maintain the power of the rudder. If we now let all fly when the...
Síða 613 - ... is precisely such as is stated in the theory. The principles of the art are therefore to be found in these treatises ; but false inferences have been drawn, by computing from erroneous quantities.
Síða 657 - When this position is attained, note carefully the form of the rope, that is, the angle which its two parts make with the horizon. Call this angle a. Every...
Síða 656 - We shall not be far mistaken in the deflection of each contiguous filament, as it quits the bottom and glides along the rudder ; but we neither know the velocity of these filaments, nor the deflection and velocity of the filaments gliding without them.
Síða 665 - ... forward by removing a part of the bows out of the water. It has not always this effect ; for the form of the harping aloft is frequently such that the tendency to gripe is diminished by immersing more of the bow in the •water.