 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...compounded with motion, or liberated from opposing motion. In the second law we have another expression : " Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts." In other words, the difference of the action is simply the added difference. A system is moving ; if... | |
 | Sir Philip Magnus - Mechanics - 1875 - 352 pages
...than in a straight line except by the continuous action of some external cause. § 57. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. This law asserts that whatever motion (and by motion is here understood quantity of motion... | |
 | William Garnett - 1875 - 348 pages
...laws of motion, and first given by Newton. As enunciated by him these laws are as follows : LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which that force acts. LAW III. Action and reaction are always equal and opposite. 25. The evidence... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Dynamics - 1876 - 282 pages
...tending to alter the period of the earth's rotation about its axis. 63. The Second Law of Motion. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. The facts implied by negation in the second law are as important as those actually affirmed, and as... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Energy - 1876 - 420 pages
...second law of motion. I shall read it, not in his own words, but in a literal translation. He says : ' Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts' Now, for the century and a half since Newton's time, mathematicians and natural philosophers have been... | |
 | sir Philip Magnus (1st bart.) - Mechanics - 1876 - 368 pages
...than in a straight line except by the continuous action of some external cause. § 57. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. This law asserts that whatever motion (and by motion is here understood quantity of motion... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - Force and energy - 1876 - 140 pages
...other large mass of gravitating matter. ARTICLK XLIV.—THE SECOND LAW OF MOTION. Law II.—CJumge of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed, By motion Newton means what in modern scientific language is called... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...216 and resolved in precisely the same way, as is at once deducible from Newton's second law, that ' change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts ; ' and accordingly we may take OA and OB as representing in direction and magnitude the forces which... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1877 - 606 pages
...SECOND LAW. Mntationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impresses, ct fien xecnndum lineam rectam qua vis ilia imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional...force, and takes place in the direction of the straight liiie in which the force acts. THIKD LAW. Actioni contrariam semper et aqualem esse reactionem: site... | |
 | sir Philip Magnus (1st bart.) - 1877 - 360 pages
...in a straight line except by the continuous action of some external cause. § 57. Law II.—Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force,...takes place in the direction of the straight line in ichich the force is impressed. This law asserts that whatever motion (and by motion is here understood... | |
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Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 
