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" Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it. "
Practical Physics - Page 84
by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle - 1922 - 472 pages
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics: In Five Books ...

William Marrat - 1810 - 512 pages
...matter, and is on that account ever proportional to the quantity of matter in the body. AXIOMS. 17. Every body continues in its state of rest, or uniform motion in a right line, until a change is effected by some external cause. 18. Any change effected in the quiescence...
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - 1821 - 408 pages
...it is called an uniform accelerative force. GENERAL LAWS OF MOTION. LAW I. " Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or uni"form motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to " change that state by forces impressed thereon.' — Newton's Princip. Book I....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 254

1907 - 848 pages
...electricity exhibits a quality akin to the "inertia" of matter, which tends to retain every material body in its) state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line except so far as it is compelled by forces to change that state. This at once raises for us the new...
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A new treatise on the use of the globes; or, A philosophical view of the ...

Thomas Keith - 1848 - 486 pages
...motion of bodies have been deduced : — GENERAL LAWS OP MOTION. LAW I. — " Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." — Newton's Princip. Book I.* Thus,...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 96

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 872 pages
...electricity exhibits a quality akin to the ' inertia ' of matter, which tends to retain every material body in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line except so far as it is compelled by forces to change that state. This at once raises for ns the new...
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A catechism adapted to the latest edition of the Regulations, for conducting ...

Aubrey William O. Saunders - 1861 - 162 pages
...exhausted, in the line of fire, agreeably to the first law of motion, by which every tody must persevere in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless it be compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Why cannot the bullet do this ? Because...
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Hints from the Dawning; Or, The Creation Story Considered Under the Laws of ...

Edward Dingle - 1868 - 350 pages
...space, or non-corpuscular atoms of ether, by centrifugal force. He says, — " Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon."* Now what force is to impress it...
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The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year ...

1881 - 210 pages
...6,885— A "CUKVED BALL." 159 SOOTH WOOD ST., CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 1880. As Newton's first law of motion is "Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a ttratgfit line unless compelled to change that state by an external force." I cannot see upon what...
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Texas School Journal, Volume 20

1902 - 730 pages
...motor. 10. Describe and explain a storage battery. Answers in Physics. 1. (a) Newton's "first law": Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.This "law of inertia" explains the...
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Hermathena, Volume 4

1883 - 568 pages
...Newton. Omitting the third as not relevant to our present purpose, these are the following : — I. — Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a right line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. II. —...
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