 To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed in the same straight line.  Elements of Natural Philosophy - Page 68by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1873 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Daniell - Physics - 1896 - 496 pages
...towards or repelled from the object A. As Sir Isaac Newton put it : " To every action (ie to every Force) there is always an equal and contrary Reaction ; or the mutual actions (ie forces) of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed." The force acting upon A and... | |
 | Arthur Gordon Webster - Electricity - 1897 - 594 pages
...reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse aequales et in paries cantrarias dirigi. To every action there is always an equal and...contrary reaction : or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed. If we have an action between two bodies 1 and 2, if... | |
 | David Peck Todd - Astronomy - 1897 - 508 pages
...to the surface from which it is projected. Newton's Third Law of Motion. — The third law reads : To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed. This law completes the steps necessary for an introduction... | |
 | Self-culture - 1897 - 592 pages
...prompt risibility, ' ' read ' ' laughter." THE SCIENCE OF FAMILIAR THINGS: III.— ACTION AND REACTION O every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the mutual actions of any tulo bodies are alu'avs equal and oppositely directed. This is Newton's Third Law of Motion. Two persons,... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1897 - 692 pages
...read "laughter." THE SCIENCE OF FAMILIAR THINGS: III. —ACTION AND REACTION О every action (here is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed. This is Newton' s Third Law of Motion. Two persons,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Physics - 1898 - 456 pages
...Third Law of Motion. 185. Law of Action and Reaction. Newton's Third Law of Motion is as follows : To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies are equal and in opposite directions. This law expresses the fact that the action of force... | |
 | Edward John Routh - Dynamics of a particle - 1898 - 440 pages
...impressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Law 3. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or, tlie mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed. 52. The first law of... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 936 pages
...the parts — and these arc regulated by the third law of motion: 3. To every motion there is alirays an equal and contrary reaction: or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are alicny» equal and oppositely directed in the same straighlline. Thus, the mutual pressure... | |
 | Theosophy - 1912 - 866 pages
...motion is proportionate to force applied and takes place in the direction in which the force acts. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed. Every particle in the Universe attracts every other... | |
 | Arthur Berry - Astronomy - 1899 - 550 pages
...traces are to be found before Newton's time, was given by him as the Third Law of Motion in the form : " To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed." Here action and reaction are to be interpreted primarily... | |
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