 Matter has an innate power of resisting external influences, so that every body, as far as it can, remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line.  Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page 148by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 652 pages
...Again at p. 222, the capacity of the student is called upon to accept the following statement : — ' Matter has an innate power of resisting external influences,...remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line.' Is it a fact that ' matter ' has any power, either innate or acquired, of resisting external influences... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 650 pages
...p. 222. the capacity of the student is called upon to accept the following statement : — ' Mutter has an innate power of resisting external influences,...remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line.' Is it a fact that ' matter ' has any power, either innate or acquired, of resisting external influences!"... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Evolution - 1864 - 664 pages
...capacity of the student is called upon to accept the following statement : — ' Mutter has an innnte power of resisting external influences, so that every...remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line.' Is it a fiict that 'matter' has any power, either innate or acquired, of resisting external influences... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...being nondirectional, is simply the sum of the kinetic energies of the several parts or particles. 182. Matter has an innate power of resisting external influences, so that every body, so far as it can, remains at rest, or moves uniformly in a straight line. This, the Inertia of matter,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1878 - 438 pages
...of motion. d fMv'\ ,, dv For — -5- = Mv ^7 = v at \ 2 / dt dt 52. Matter has the innate property of resisting external influences, so that every body, as far as it can, remains at rest, or moves with constant velocity in a straight line. This, the Inertia of matter, is proportional to the quantity... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1878 - 480 pages
...v(M?s). d fMv*\ ,, dv fT r «Fs\ dt \ 2 / dt \ dt J 44 LAWS OF MOTIOX. 52. Matter has the innate property of resisting external influences, so that every body, as far as it can, remains at rest, or moves with constant velocity in a straight line. This, the Inertia of matter, is proportional to the quantity... | |
 | William Thomson Kelvin (1st baron), Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1879 - 564 pages
...being non-directional, is simply the sum of the kinetic energies of the several parts or particles. 216. Matter has an innate power of resisting external...remains at rest, or moves uniformly in a straight line. matter in the body. And it follows that some cause is requisite inertia. to disturb a body's uniformity... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 956 pages
...Again, at p. 222, the capacity of the student is called upon to accept the following statement : — " Matter has an innate power of resisting external influences,...remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line." Is it a fact that "matter" has any power, either innate or acquired, of resisting external influences... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 546 pages
...He reads as his own, not' as a mathematician but as a philosopher, the fundamental just quoted : — "Matter has an innate power of resisting external...remains at rest, or moves uniformly in a straight line." He affirms that the cause of the continued motion of the sledge is this innate power of the matter... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 900 pages
...Again, at page 222, the capacity of the student is called upon to accept the following statement : ' Matter has an innate power of resisting external influences,...remains at rest or moves uniformly in a straight line.' Is it a fact that ' matter ' has any power, either innate or acquired, of resisting external influences... | |
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