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" And show me how they calculated the initiatory speed of our car?" "Yes, my worthy friend; taking into consideration all the elements of the problem, the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon... "
Practical Physics - Page 458
by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle - 1922 - 472 pages
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The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book

Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin - 1904 - 320 pages
...force required to bring it to rest ? 35. The mass of the earth is 80 times the mass of the moon. The distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon is 240,000 miles. What is the distance from the center of the earth to the center of mass of the earth...
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A First Course in Physics

Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale - 1906 - 536 pages
...possible for the moon to totally eclipse the sun from the whole of the earth's surface at once ? 5. If the distance from the center of the earth to the...surface would the sun be totally eclipsed at any one occasion ? 6. If the star Arcturus, distance 600,000,000,000,000 miles from the earth, were to explode...
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The Gases in Rocks, Issues 1-12

Rollin Thomas Chamberlin - 1908 - 370 pages
...can never have been less than 4.93 of our present hours, this being the period of revolution when the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon was 9,194 miles. Consequently we must suppose that when the moon broke off from the earth it was at...
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The American Journal of Science, Volume 28; Volume 178

1909 - 632 pages
...can never have been less than 4'93 of our present hours, this being the period of revolution when the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon was 9,194 miles. Consequently we must suppose that when the moon broke off from the earth it was at...
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Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, Issue 107

1909 - 278 pages
...can never have been less than 4.93 of our present hours, this being the period of revolution when the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon was 9,194 miles. Consequently we must suppose that when the moon broke off from the earth it was at...
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What God Hath Wrought: The Origin and Destiny of Man, and the End of the Time

Charles Holm - 1912 - 192 pages
...second. It is now a perfect round orbit of the earth. Find the radius out of this, it will be an exact distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun. When you subtract out of it the half diameter of the earth and of the sun you will get the supposed...
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A First Course in Physics

Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale - 1913 - 522 pages
..., .,,,., a broad source totally eclipse the sun from the whole of the earth's surface at once.' 7. If the distance from the center of the earth to the...would the sun be totally eclipsed at any one time ? 8. Why is a room with white walls much lighter than a similar room with black walls? 9. If the word...
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Hellenic Civilization

George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - 1915 - 780 pages
...of the heavens, whose center coincides with the center of the earth, and whose semi-diameter is the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun. This definition of the term world, as given in the writings of other astronomers, Aristarchus...
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An Introduction to Astronomy

Forest Ray Moulton - 1916 - 674 pages
...actually much less than that in most of the ordinary distances on the surface of the earth. The mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the moon has been found to be 238,862 miles, and the circumference of its orbit is therefore' 1,500,818 miles....
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A Manual of Field Astronomy

Andrew Hall Holt - 1916 - 152 pages
...angle OAS is equal to 90° plus the measured altitude, FIG. 13 OA is the radius of the earth, OS is the distance from the center of the earth to the center of the body observed. When the observed body is at the zenith it is evident that the parallax will be zero;...
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