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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. "
An Introduction to the Theory of Electricity: With Numerous Examples - Page 7
by Linnaeus Cumming - 1885 - 326 pages
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Class-book of modern science

Class-book - 1868 - 330 pages
...of Motion, which is "That every change of motion is proportional to the force producing the change, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts." 12. Q. How is it that a half-open- door, which a slight touch Kould disturb, may be pierced with a...
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A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics ...

George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1871 - 620 pages
...remain so, and if it be in motion it will continue to move in the same straight line with uniform speed. Law II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force art». When a person is on board a boat which is moving uniformly along a stream, any movement he makes...
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A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle: With Numerous Examples

Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1871 - 462 pages
...illustrate by referring to small and trivial cases as well as to the grandest phenomena we can conceive. 65. LAW II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...force, and takes place in the direction of the straight ''ne in which the force acts. We have considered change of velocity, or acceleration, as a purely geometrical...
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Elements of Natural Philosophy, Part 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qud vis ilia imprimitur. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. 218. If any force generates motion, a double force will generate double motion, and so on, whether...
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A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics ...

George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1873 - 752 pages
...remain so, and if it be in motion it will continue to move in the same straight line with uniform speed. Law II. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. When a person is on board a boat which is moving uniformly along a stream, any movement he makes produces...
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An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: For the Use of the Junior Classes at ...

S. Parkinson - Mechanics - 1874 - 420 pages
...proportionalem esse vi motrici impress^, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qud vis ilia •imprimitur. " Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force acts." LEX III. Actioni contrariam semper et cequalem esse reactionem: sive, corporum duorum actiones in se...
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Principles of Mechanics

Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Mechanics - 1874 - 340 pages
...we pass on to examine the exact relation between force and the motion which it produces. Second Law. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. Hitherto it has been sufficient to speak of the motion of bodies, without regarding this...
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Chambers's information for the people, ed. by W. and R ..., Volume 1; Volume 41

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 848 pages
...line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. id. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. 3</. To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction ; or the actions...
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Principles of Mechanics

Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Mechanics - 1874 - 336 pages
...we pass on to examine the exact relation between force and the motion which it produces. Second Law. Change of motion is proportional to the impressed...direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. Hitherto it has been sufficient to speak of the motion of bodies, without regarding this...
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Elementary Dynamics...

W. G. Willson - Dynamics - 1874 - 294 pages
...motion. This leads to the enunciation of the second law. 7. LAW II. — The change in the quantity of motion is proportional to the impressed force,...direction of the straight line in which the force acts. By the change of the quantity of motion is here to be understood the change of momentum (Arts. 2 and...
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