...ARTICLB XIIX.—ON IMPULSE. The total effect of a force in communicating velocity to a body is therefore proportional to the force and to the time during which it acts conjointly. The product of the time of action of a force into its intensity if it is constant, or its...

...force as the term is now understood and has been used in the foregoing discussions, but a quantity proportional to the force and to the time during which it acts. Thus, if a force of magnitude P acts for an interval of time A/ upon a body of mass m, and if Av represents...

...force as the term is now understood and has been used in the foregoing discussions, but a quantity proportional to the force and to the time during which it acts. Thus, if a force of magnitude P acts for an interval of time A/ upon a body of mass m, and if A7' represents...

...in a straight line unless acted upon by some external force. 2. The momentum produced by any force is proportional to the force and to the time during which it acts; and its direction is that in which the force acts. 3. Any change of momentum must be accompanied by an...

...of moving with constant velocity in a straight line, unless acted upon by some external force. "2. Change of momentum is proportional to the force and...it acts, and is in the same direction as the force. "3. To every action there is an equal and contrary re-action." It is probably impossible for any human...

...the body is mvit and the gain of momentum is therefore (mv1 — mvt). Now by Newton's Second Law this change of momentum is proportional to the force / and to the time / during which it acts, La. ft « m (»i— »0) /« »(-*1r) a). The quotient (»i— »„)/< is the increase in velocity...