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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. "
Elements of Natural Philosophy - Page 66
by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1873 - 279 pages
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The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles

Ernst Mach - History - 1893 - 566 pages
...forces. " "Law II. Change of motion [ie of momentum] is " proportional to the moving force impressed, and takes "place in the direction of the straight line in which "such force is impressed." " Law III. Reaction is always equal and opposite "to action ; that is to...
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Laws and Properties of Matter

Richard Glazebrook - Matter - 1893 - 208 pages
...a unit of time and thus arrive at the following1 statement. Law II. — Rate of change of momentum is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which the force acts. If we proceed as above, we may look upon this second law as a dynamical definition...
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The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development

Ernst Mach - Mechanics - 1893 - 648 pages
...forces." " Law //. Change of motion [ie of momentum] is " proportional to the moving force impressed, and takes " place in the direction of the straight line in which "such force is impressed. " "Law III. Reaction is always equal and opposite "to action; that is to...
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Mechanics, sound and light

Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1894 - 360 pages
...line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed force to change that state. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Law III. — To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the mutual actions...
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The Earth: An Introduction to the Study of Inorganic Nature

Evan William Small - Earth - 1894 - 296 pages
...of motion discovered by Galileo and stated by Newton in the following terms : — Change of moti .n is proportional to the impressed force, and takes...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. It is a matter of common experience that the force or effort required to move a body when at rest or...
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The Earth: An Introduction to the Study of Inorganic Nature

Evan William Small - Earth - 1894 - 260 pages
...of motion discovered by Galileo and stated by Newton in the following terms : — Change of motijn is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in ivhich the force acts. It is a matter of common experience that the force or effort required to move...
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Physics for University Students, Volume 1

Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1894 - 360 pages
...impressed force to change that state. Law II. — Change of motion is proportional to the irupressed force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. Law III. — To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the mutual actions...
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Elementary Lessons with Numerical Examples in Practical Mechanics and ...

Robert Gordon Blaine - Machine design - 1894 - 240 pages
...called " quantity of motion," and hence the law just obtained agrees with Newton-s second law of motion, "change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which that force acts." Force is therefore momentum per second. If the time t is too short to be...
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An Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics

James Jeans - Mechanics, Analytic - 1907 - 390 pages
...straight line ? An answer to this is provided by the second law : LAW II. The rate of change of momentum is proportional to the impressed force, and takes...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. The force, then, produces change in a certain quantity, — the momentum of the body on which the force...
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Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time

Richard Morris - Science - 1986 - 248 pages
...of uniform rectilinear motion unless compelled to change its state by forces impressed upon it. The change of motion is proportional to the impressed...takes place in the direction of the straight line along which the force acts. To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual...
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