Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 28Pub. for J. Hinton., 1761 |
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... cannot properly act any longer . On account of their transparency , they become the basis of all glass - works . Fig . 1 . Fig . 3 . Fig . 2 . Fig . 4 . Leave A. It is a refiftance greater than that of their. FOR JANUARY , 1761 . 13.
... cannot properly act any longer . On account of their transparency , they become the basis of all glass - works . Fig . 1 . Fig . 3 . Fig . 2 . Fig . 4 . Leave A. It is a refiftance greater than that of their. FOR JANUARY , 1761 . 13.
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... refiftance is flight . Q. What is firmness ? water . Q. What is understood by compreffibility ? A. It is neceflary first to know , that the relation of the volume of a body to its mafs is what is called denfity . A body is more denfe ...
... refiftance is flight . Q. What is firmness ? water . Q. What is understood by compreffibility ? A. It is neceflary first to know , that the relation of the volume of a body to its mafs is what is called denfity . A body is more denfe ...
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... refiftance against motion perceptible in all bodies . Q. How may we form fome notion of it ? A. Nothing feems more proper for that purpofe than the experiment propofed by Sir Ifaac Newton : Let a body be imagined of a determinate weight ...
... refiftance against motion perceptible in all bodies . Q. How may we form fome notion of it ? A. Nothing feems more proper for that purpofe than the experiment propofed by Sir Ifaac Newton : Let a body be imagined of a determinate weight ...
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... refiftance ; and the actions of two bodies on one another are al- wavs equal and oppofite in their directions . ' Every action fuppofes refiftance ; take a- way refiftance , and there will be no action ; for we cannot conceive an action ...
... refiftance ; and the actions of two bodies on one another are al- wavs equal and oppofite in their directions . ' Every action fuppofes refiftance ; take a- way refiftance , and there will be no action ; for we cannot conceive an action ...
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... refiftance is victorious ; but , if this refiftance yields , the force it obeys be- comes a live force , and from 8 it rifes to 32 . Q. What is reft ? A. It is the ftate oppofed to motion . ' Abfolute reft ' is the state of a body that ...
... refiftance is victorious ; but , if this refiftance yields , the force it obeys be- comes a live force , and from 8 it rifes to 32 . Q. What is reft ? A. It is the ftate oppofed to motion . ' Abfolute reft ' is the state of a body that ...
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