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" Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. "
Elements of Natural Philosophy - Page 66
by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1873 - 279 pages
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 75

Christianity - 1882 - 662 pages
...conditions. 3rd. Commencement or change of motion is proportional to the disturbing force, less the resisting force ; and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the two forces act and react. I commenced this brief article by disclaiming all interest in the merely...
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The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently ...

Daniel Pereira Gardner - Agriculture - 1846 - 898 pages
...2. Every change of motion produced by any external force is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. "3. Action and reaction are equal, and in contrary directions ; that is, equal and contrary changes...
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Hand-book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, Architecture, Domestic ...

Thomas Antisell - Industrial arts - 1852 - 726 pages
...2. Every change of motion produced by any external force is proportions! to the force hnpressed, and in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 8. Action and reaction are equal and in contrary directions ; that is, equal and contrary changes of...
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Putnam's Home Cyclopedia ...

G.P. Putnam & Co - 1852 - 728 pages
...2. Every change of motion produced by any external force is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 3. Action and reaction are equal and in contrary directions ; that is, equal and contrary changes of...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853 - 770 pages
...(2.) Every change of motion produced by any external force is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. (3.) Action and reaction are equal and in contrary directions ; that is, equal and contrary changes...
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Fireside Philosophy, Or Familiar Talks about Common Things

1861 - 804 pages
...2. Every change of motion produced by any external force is proportional to the force impressed, and in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 3. Action and reaction are equal and in contrary directions ; that is, equal and contrary changes of...
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A treatise on the dynamics of a particle, by P.G. Tait and W.J. Steele

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...referring to small and trivial cases as well as to the grandest phenomena we can conceive. 60. LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. We have considered change of velocity, or acceleration, as a purely geometrical quantity, and have...
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Mechanics for Beginners: With Numerous Examples

Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 372 pages
...compelled to change that state by force acting on it. II. Change of motion is proportional to the acting force,, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. III. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction: or the mutual actions of any two...
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Mechanics for beginners

Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 368 pages
...84. We now repeat the second Law of Motion. Change of motion is proportional to the acting f<.irci\ and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force actt. we have hitherto regarded, and may proceed to those more complex cases in which different bodies...
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Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Volume 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...rw i//n imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional to the imvrt'.wd fu/rc, and 1 1 , second law. takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force <'<-(&. 252. If any force generates motion, a double force will generate double motion, and so on,...
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