 | William Guy Peck - 1859 - 368 pages
...motion, nor can a body in motion increase or diminish its rate, or change the direction of its motion. Hence, if a body is at rest, it will remain at rest, or if it is in motion, it will continue to move uniformly in a straight line, until acted upon by some force.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 518 pages
...manner when a nail is driven into a board, the particles of the latter are thrust aside and compressed to make room for those of the former. Inertia. 8....motion, is that they are continually acted upon by forces which change their state of motion. Thus, a ball thrown from the hand, besides meeting with... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 524 pages
...latter are thrust aside and compressed to make room for those of the former. Inertia. §. ' ITTERTIA is the tendency which a body has to maintain its state...motion, is that they are continually acted upon by forces which change their state of motion. Thus, a ball thrown from the hand, besides meeting with... | |
 | William Guy Peck - 1870 - 322 pages
...Laws, depend on the principle of inertia. They may be enunciated as follows : 1st Lam. If a body be at rest, it will remain at rest ; or if in motion, it will move uniformly in a straight line, till acted on by some force. '2cl Law. If a body be acted on by several... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1875 - 516 pages
...particles of the latter are thrust aside and compressed to make room for those of the former. Inertia. §. INERTIA is the tendency which a body has to maintain...motion, is that they are continually acted upon by forces which change their state of motion. Thus, a ball thrown from the hand, besides meeting with... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1881 - 550 pages
...fast as it enters the bottle air will escape in bubbles from the end of the tube in the tumbler. 15. Inertia is the tendency w-hich a body has to maintain...motion, is that they are continually acted upon by forces which change their state of motion. Thus, a ball thrown from the hand, besides meeting with... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1888 - 560 pages
...bottle air will escape in bubbles from the end of the tube in the tumbler. 15. Inertia is the tender^' which a body has to maintain its state of rest or...motion, is that they are continually acted upon by forces which change their state of motion. Thus, a ball thrown from the hand, besides meeting with... | |
 | William Kent - 1895 - 1234 pages
...which it may be placed, until acted on by some force. Newton's Law* of notion.— 1st Law. If a body be at rest, It will remain at rest; or if in motion, it will move uniformly in a straight Hue till icted on by some force. *i Law. If a body be acted on by several forces,... | |
 | William Kent - 1902 - 1204 pages
...may be placed, until acted on by eome force. Ne wtoii'H I<:i\t H of Motion.— 1st Law. If a body be at rest, it will remain at rest; or if in motion, it will move uniformly in a straight line till acted on by some force. 3d Law. If a body be acted on by several... | |
 | Nehemiah Hawkins - 1909 - 710 pages
...post at the foot of a stair which supports the handrail. Newton's Laws of Motion. — 1. If a body be at rest, it will remain at rest; or if in motion, it will move uniformly in a straight line until acted upon by some force. 2. If a body be acted upon by several... | |
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INERTIA is the tendency which a body has to maintain its state of rest or motion. If a body is at rest it has no power to set itself in motion, or if it is in motion it has no power to change either its rate of motion or the direction in which it is moving.... 
