 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1882 - 784 pages
...entirely retracted. Prof. Darwin there italicises, as both his own result and Sir W. Thomson's, that " The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as that of a rigid one which has an ellipticity equal to " the fluid one's. But meanwhile, as they were correcting this slip, an exactly similar one... | |
 | Osmond Fisher - Earth - 1889 - 490 pages
...Hopkins were, in 1876, abandoned by Sir William Thomson. Moreover Professor Darwin has found that " The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as that of a rigid one, which has an ellipticity equal to that due to the rotation of the spheroid." With respect to the tides the case is different.... | |
 | Osmond Fisher - Earth - 1889 - 482 pages
...Hopkins were, in 1876, abandoned by Sir William Thomson. Moreover Professor Darwin has found that " The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as that of a rigid one, which has an ellipticity equal to that due to the rotation of the spheroid." With respect to the tides the case is different.... | |
 | Sir George Howard Darwin - Astronomy - 1908 - 540 pages
...cos i(l-* ain't') (32') at n * g» Adding (32') to (32), the whole precession is ^f-^cosi. (32") at n We thus see that the effect of the non-periodic part...The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as tliat of a rigid one which has an ellipticity equal to that due to the rotation of the spheroid. From... | |
 | 1882
...entirely retracted. Prof. Darwin there italicises, as both his own result and Sir W. Thomson's, that " The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as that of a rigid one which has an ellipticity equal to " the fluid one's. But meanwhile, as they were correcting this slip, an exactly similar one... | |
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The precession of a fluid spheroid is the same as tliat of a rigid one which has an ellipticity equal to that due to the rotation of the spheroid. From this it follows that the precession of a fluid spheroid will differ by little from that of a rigid... 