 | John Francis Twisden - Mechanics - 1874 - 264 pages
...parallelogram of forces. — Newton states and illustrates the laws of motion as follows : — ' 1. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it is compelled by impressed Jorces to change its state. Projectiles continue in their state... | |
 | Sir John Francis Twisden - Mechanics - 1880 - 382 pages
...motion. They are three in number and, with the illustrations he added to them, are as follows : — 1. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it is compelled by impressed forces to change its state. Projectiles continue in their state... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1885 - 220 pages
...The same is true of the other sciences, and especially of the great natural laws. The law of gravity, for example has never been proved by any exhaustive..." every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a * Jevons, vol. i., p. 218. straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1886 - 1074 pages
...matter. The action of forces in causing motion is best expressed in Newton's laws : The first law is, Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except as it is compelled by forces to change that stale. balance each other. If a constant unbalanced force... | |
 | Solomon Joseph Silberstein - Cosmology - 1896 - 314 pages
...the transcendentalism of pure reason. I/et me now consider Newton's first law of motion. He said : "Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it is compelled by force to change that state. " It is positively true, that it is impossible... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1902 - 338 pages
...movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus illud a viribus. impresses eogitur statum suum mutare. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except iir so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change tliat state. enables us (§ 215, below)... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Physics - 1908 - 508 pages
...Isaac Newton enunciated three laws of motion which still stand as the fundamental laws of dynamics. I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line except as it is compelled to change that state by some applied force. II. Change of motion is proportional... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Mathematics - 1911 - 276 pages
...connection with inertia and mass. The first law of motion, as following Newton we now enunciate it, is — Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it is compelled by impressed force to change that state. This law is more than a dry formula:... | |
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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state. 
