 It is an axiom jn natural philosophy, " that, every body will persevere in a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by forces impressed : and that the change of motion is proportional to the moving...  The Shipwreck: A Poem - Page 202by William Falconer - 1811 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Falconer - 1803 - 216 pages
...natural philosophy, That everybody mil persevere in a, state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by...is proportional to the moving force impressed, and made according to the right line in which that force acts. Hence it is easy to conceive how a ship... | |
 | Tiberius Cavallo - Physics - 1803 - 546 pages
...which it is aflerted that the change of motion is always proportional to the moving force imprefled, and is made according to the right line in which that force is imprefled ; for if it were made in a crooked line, it would imply the action of a third force ;... | |
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pages
...natural philosophy, "That every body will persevere in a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by...is proportional to the moving force impressed, and made according to the right Iui2 in which that force acts." Hence it is easy to conceive how a ship... | |
 | William Falconer, Thomas Park - English poetry - 1809 - 184 pages
...a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in e right line, unless it be compelled to change its stale by forces impressed , and that the change of motion...is proportional to the moving force impressed, and made according to the right line in which that force acts.' Hence it is easy to conceive how a ship... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...state by forces impioifil, and that the change of motion i< proportional to the moving force inipic-i : and is made according to the right line in which that force i* exerted." By this principle it is easy to conceive how a ship is compelled to turn in any direction,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...philosophy, " that every hotly will persevere in a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by...and that the change of motion is proportional to the inovhig force impressed, and made according to the viL'ht line in which that force acts." Hence it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...moving force impressed, and made according to the right line in which that force act«.'' Hence it fc> easy to conceive how a ship is compelled to turn into...any direction by the force of the wind, acting upon any part of her length in lines parallel to the plane of the horizon. Thus in the act of veering, which... | |
 | William Falconer - Shipwrecks - 1811 - 118 pages
...natural philosophy, that every body will persevere in a stale of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by...and that the change of motion is proportional to the movinsr force impressed, and made according to the light line in which that force acts. Hence it is... | |
 | William Falconer - 1811 - 252 pages
...will persevere in a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be com. pellcd to change its state by forces impressed: and that...is proportional to the moving force impressed, and made according to the right line in whirl) that force acts." Hence it is easy to conceive how a Ship... | |
 | William Falconer - 1811 - 120 pages
...natural philosophy, that everybody will persevere in a state of rest, or of moving uniformly in a right line, unless it be compelled to change its state by...impressed: and that the change of motion is proportional t» the moving force impressed, and made according to the right line in which (hat force acts. Hence... | |
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