A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments / perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A. - William Whiston; Francis Hauksbee - Book

A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments / perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.

To be perform'd by Francis Hauksbee; and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M. A.
1st Day. Sir Isaac Newton 's Three Laws of Motion, or Nature, demonstrated by Experiments.
That the Velocity of Falling Bodies is as the Times of Falling, and the Lines of Descent in the Duplicate Proportion of those Times.
An Instrument to measure the Force of Falling Bodies.
Experiments concerning the Sliding, Rolling, and Falling of Bodies.
That Bodies will ascend as high, as whence they fall by the last Velocity impress'd, when all Obstacles are removed.
That Bodies by a compound Force move in a Diagonal Line.
2d—The Balance and Stilyard, with all their Properties and Uses shewn and explain'd.
The Method of estimating the Momentum , or Quantity of Motion in any given Body.
The general Principle of Mechanicks established upon this Method.
Experiments to demonstrate the different Effects of the same Weight of Power acting in different Directions at the same Point of any Engine.
The Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions.

William Whiston
Francis Hauksbee
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Язык

Английский

Год издания

2013-10-23

Темы

Physics -- Early works to 1800; Physical instruments; Physics -- Experiments

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