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... velocity , when once the support is removed , and it is free to obey the attraction of the earth . While the stone lay on the top of the cliff , the force with which the earth attracted it was counteracted by an opposite force - namely ...
... velocity , when once the support is removed , and it is free to obey the attraction of the earth . While the stone lay on the top of the cliff , the force with which the earth attracted it was counteracted by an opposite force - namely ...
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... Velocity . - Velocity , or rate of motion , is easily understood , for we have constantly before us bodies in motion as one of the most familiar experiences of life . A railway train passes , and we estimate that it is LESS . I. LAWS OF ...
... Velocity . - Velocity , or rate of motion , is easily understood , for we have constantly before us bodies in motion as one of the most familiar experiences of life . A railway train passes , and we estimate that it is LESS . I. LAWS OF ...
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... velocity is soon reduced to thirty miles an hour , then to twenty miles , then to ten miles , until it finally stops . Thus its velocity during the operation of stopping has been continually changing from the high speed of forty miles ...
... velocity is soon reduced to thirty miles an hour , then to twenty miles , then to ten miles , until it finally stops . Thus its velocity during the operation of stopping has been continually changing from the high speed of forty miles ...
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... velocity . We shall find that the same force will produce at the end of one second the same velocity , if it be applied to set in motion 100 cubic metres of iron , or 69 cubic metres of lead ; there is , therefore , the same amount of ...
... velocity . We shall find that the same force will produce at the end of one second the same velocity , if it be applied to set in motion 100 cubic metres of iron , or 69 cubic metres of lead ; there is , therefore , the same amount of ...
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... velocity in the one gramme , and another unit of force to produce the same in the other , and hence we must apply two units of force . It is not , however , equally easy to see that in order to produce double velocity in a mass , we ...
... velocity in the one gramme , and another unit of force to produce the same in the other , and hence we must apply two units of force . It is not , however , equally easy to see that in order to produce double velocity in a mass , we ...
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