 | John M. Moffat - Physics - 1834 - 530 pages
...stated, indicate the decrease of gravity, at the distance of 240,000 miles from the surface of the earth. This decrease of weight, in proportion to the squares...to the north pole would gain the addition of three pounds ; and if conveyed to the equator, it would suffer a loss of four pounds and a quarter. To account... | |
 | Walter Rogers Johnson - Science - 1835 - 530 pages
...of increasing distances, might in some situations be made the subject of experiment. A ball of jron, weighing a thousand pounds at the level of the sea,...to the north pole would gain the addition of three pounds ; and if conveyed to the equator, it would suffer a loss of four pounds and a quarter. To account... | |
 | John M. Moffat, Walter Rogers Johnson - Physics - 1842 - 498 pages
...of the earth's surface from its centre to be 4000 miles, that is, half its diameter,* the distance of the moon would be sixty times as great, and the...to the north pole would gain the addition of three pounds; and if conveyed to the equator, it would suffer a loss of four pounds and a quarter. To account... | |
 | John M. Moffat, Walter Rogers Johnson - Physics - 1845 - 516 pages
...number, or 3600, would, as just stated, indicate the decrease of gravity, at the distance of 2 10,000 miles from the surface of the earth. 74. This decrease...to the north pole would gain the addition of three pounds ; and if conveyed to the equator, it would suffer a loss of four pounds and a quarter. To account... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Readers - 1849 - 456 pages
...of high mountains as at the level of the sea. Weight, consequently, differs in different situations. A ball of iron, weighing a thousand pounds at the level of the sea, if weighed in a spring-balance on the top of a mountain four miles high, will be found to have lost... | |
 | Chemistry - 1850 - 414 pages
...stated, indicate the decrease of gravity, at the distance of 240,000 miles from the surface of the earth. This decrease of weight, in proportion to the squares...to the north pole would gain the addition of three pounds; and if conveyed to the equator, it would suffer a loss of four pounds and a quarter. To account... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1851 - 168 pages
...surface at the equator is, and therefore the attraction is stronger at the former than at the latter. A ball of iron weighing a thousand pounds at the level of the sea loses two pounds of its weight at the summit of a mountain four miles in height. Were the same body... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Science - 1856 - 598 pages
...as the attraction of gravitation increases or decreases, according to the squares of the distances. A ball of iron, weighing a thousand pounds at the...sea, would be perceived to have lost two pounds of ite weight if taken to the top of a mountain four miles high, a spring balance being used. Q. Where... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Science - 1857 - 334 pages
...earth, and decreasing upward, as the square of its distance from the centre of the earth increases. A ball of iron, weighing a thousand pounds at the...be perceived to have lost two pounds of its weight if taken to the top of a mountain four miles high, a spring balance being used. 113 Where will a body... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1859 - 344 pages
...as the attraction of gravitation increases or decreases, according to the squares of the distances, A ball of iron, weighing a thousand pounds at the...be perceived to have lost two pounds of its weight if taken to the top of a mountain four miles high, a spring balance being used. 113 Where will a body... | |
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This decrease of weight, in proportion to the squares of increasing distances', might in some situations be made the subject of experiment. A ball of iron, weighing a thousand pounds at the level of the sea, would be perceived to have lost two pounds... 
