 | Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 524 pages
...prevents it from fiilling towards the earth. Fig. 22. The weight of a body is due to the force of gra\ity, acting upon all of its particles. but it must not...another effect. that is, motion. At the same place the weights of bodies are proportional to their masses. or the quantities of matter which they contain... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 518 pages
...Horizontal Lino, or Plane ? Level? exerts upon any body that prevents it from falling towards the earth. The •weight of a body is due to the force of gravity, actin™ upon all of its particles, but it must not be confounded with the force of gravity. Weight... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1875 - 516 pages
...its use. (39.) What is Weight? exerts upon any body that prevents it from falling towards the earth. The weight of a body is due to the force of gravity,...another effect, that is, motion. At the same place the weights of bodies are proportional to their masses, or the quantities of matter which they contain... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1875 - 516 pages
...pressure which it GRAVITATION. exerts upon any body that prevents it from falling towards the earth. The weight of a body is due to the force of gravity,...effect of gravity when resisted ; when gravity is nnresisted it produces quite another effect. that is, motion. At the same place the weights of bodies... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1875 - 826 pages
...39. The WEIGHT of a body is the pressure which it exerts upon any body that prevents it from felling towards the earth. Fig. 22. The weight of a body is due to the force of gravity, acting upon a'l of its particles, but it must not be confounded with the force of gravity. Weight is only the effect... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1881 - 550 pages
...body is due to the force / f"[of gravity, acting upon all its particles, but it must not bs"**'|" "• confounded with the force of gravity. Weight is only...another effect, that is, motion. At the same place the weights of bodies are proportional to their masses, or the quantities of matter which they contain.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1881 - 556 pages
...our instruments for levelling and making astronomical observations are constructed. 59- 'Weight. — The WEIGHT of a body is due to the force of gravity, acting upon all its particles, but it must not be confounded with the force of gravity. Weight is only the effect of... | |
 | William Perren Maycock - 1896 - 498 pages
...that is generally accepted. * 3. MASS AND WEIGHT. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter in it : the weight of a body is due to the force of gravity acting upon this matter. The 1 This term is not altogether a well defined one, hut is helpful to the student. larger... | |
 | John Thornton - 1899 - 460 pages
...gravity of the sun is only about I'4. The Sun. force of gravity on the surface of the earth ; and as the weight of a body is due to the force of gravity. a body at the surface of the sun would weigh twenty-eight times as much as upon the earth. The physical... | |
 | William Perren Maycock - 1902 - 486 pages
...that is generally accepted. * 3. MASS AND WEIGHT. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter in it : the weight of a body is due to the force of gravity acting upon this matter. The 1 This term is not altogether a well defined one, but is helpful to the student. larger... | |
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The weight of a body is due to the force of gravity, acting upon all of its particles, but it must not be confounded with the force of gravity. Weight is only the effect of gravity when resisted ; when gravity is unresisted it produces quite another effect,... 
