 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1888 - 569 pages
...secundum lineam rectam qua vis ilia imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional to force applied, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 252. If any force generates motion, a double force will generate double motion, and so on, whether... | |
 | Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes - Steam-engines - 1888 - 564 pages
...moving with a uniform velocity, we know that it is being acted upon by external force. Second Law.— Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the straight line in which the force is impressed. In the above statement the word motion has the meaning... | |
 | Institute of Marine Engineers - Marine engineering - 1889 - 512 pages
...in a straight line, unless acted on by some external force to change that state. Second Laic . — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Third Lau.. — Reaction is always equal to action, and opposite to it in direction. It was this third... | |
 | William McKendree Bryant - Force and energy - 1890 - 334 pages
...is formulated in what is known as the SECOND LAW OF MOTION. Newton's statement of this law is that: "Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts." This statement, it will be noticed, assumes that all bodies are in motion, and that motion can therefore... | |
 | Charles Vandeleur Burton - Dynamics - 1890 - 330 pages
...the word ' motion ' was understood by Newton, his Second Law of Motion being enunciated as follows : Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. It has already been shown that change of momentum is equal to the product of the resultant force by... | |
 | Edward Salisbury Dana - Mechanics - 1881 - 320 pages
...straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. (2) Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. (3) To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies... | |
 | Thomas Hubbard Musick - Force and energy - 1890 - 390 pages
...Prof. Tate says: " Newton's Second Law is now required: Change of motion is proportional to the moving force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. " Motion, as Newton has previously defined it, is here used as a technical scientific term for what... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 992 pages
...obviously a new question, to be resolved by experiment; and the answer is the second law of motion: 2. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction tf the straight line in which the force acts. Newton's silence is as expressive as his speech. Nothing... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1890 - 144 pages
...impressed force to change that state. Law 2. — Change of motion is proportional to force applied 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, the mutual actions... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Physics - 1891 - 572 pages
...regard to the direction and amount of effect of forces is stated in Newton's second law of motion. " Change of Motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts." In this law, " change of motion " means the product of the mass into the acceleration produced by the... | |
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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. 
