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It is useful to consider at the outset various theorems connected with the
geometrical notion of the path described by a moving point ; and these we shall
now take up , deferring the consideration of Velocity to a future section , as being
more ...
It is useful to consider at the outset various theorems connected with the
geometrical notion of the path described by a moving point ; and these we shall
now take up , deferring the consideration of Velocity to a future section , as being
more ...
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Hence , just as the direction of motion of a point is the tangent to its path , so the
direction of acceleration of a moving point is to be found by the following
construction :From any point o draw lines OP , OQ , etc. , representing in
magnitude and ...
Hence , just as the direction of motion of a point is the tangent to its path , so the
direction of acceleration of a moving point is to be found by the following
construction :From any point o draw lines OP , OQ , etc. , representing in
magnitude and ...
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The former of these changes the velocity , the other affects only the form of the
path , or the direction of motion . Hence if a moving point be subject to an
acceleration , constant or not , whose direction is continually perpendicular to the
direction ...
The former of these changes the velocity , the other affects only the form of the
path , or the direction of motion . Hence if a moving point be subject to an
acceleration , constant or not , whose direction is continually perpendicular to the
direction ...
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the case , for any position ; the determination of the form of the path described ,
and of other circumstances of the motion , is a question of pure mathematics , and
in all cases is capable ( if not of an exact solution , at all events ) of a solution to ...
the case , for any position ; the determination of the form of the path described ,
and of other circumstances of the motion , is a question of pure mathematics , and
in all cases is capable ( if not of an exact solution , at all events ) of a solution to ...
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When there is uniform acceleration in a constant direction , the path described is
a parabola , whose axis is parallel to that direction . This is the case of a projectile
moving in vacuo . For the velocity ( V ) in the original direction of motion ...
When there is uniform acceleration in a constant direction , the path described is
a parabola , whose axis is parallel to that direction . This is the case of a projectile
moving in vacuo . For the velocity ( V ) in the original direction of motion ...
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| Title | Elements of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 Volume 23 of A library of universal literature. Part one - Science [vol.23] Clarendon Press series Elements of Natural Philosophy, Peter Guthrie Tait Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 |
| Authors | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1873 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 May 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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