Treatise on natural philosophy : Vol 1. Part 2 / by Sir William Thomson and Peter Guthrie Tait.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Treatise on natural philosophy : Vol 1. Part 2 / by Sir William Thomson and Peter Guthrie Tait. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. DIVISION II.—ABSTRACT DYNAMICS. Chapter Y.—INTRODUCTORY. Approximate treatment of physical questions—Further ap- proximations ..... Object of the present division of the work . Laws of friction ..... Rejection of merely curious speculations . Chapter VI.—STATICS OF A PARTICLE.—ATTRACTION. Objects of the chapter ..... Conditions of equilibrium of a particle—Equilibrium of a particle—Angle of repose .... Attraction—Universal law of attraction—Special unit of quantity of matter—Linear, surface, and volume, den- sities—Electric and magnetic reckonings of quantity— Positive and negative masses admitted in abstract theory of attraction—Uniform spherical shell—Attraction on internal point ..... Digression on the division of surfaces into elements—Explana- tions and definitions regarding cones—The solid angle of a cone, or of a complete conical surface—Sum of all the solid angles round a point = 47r—Sum of the solid angles of all the complete conical surfaces = 2t—Solid angle subtended at a point by a terminated surface—Orthogonal and oblique sections of a small cone—Area of segment cut from spherical surface by small cone Uniform spherical shell—Attraction on external point—At- traction on an element of the surface . Attraction of a spherical surface of which the density varies inversely as the cube of the distance from a given point —Uninsulated sphere under the influence of an electric point—Direct analytical calculation of attractions—Uni- form spherical shell—Uniform circular disc, on particle in its axis—Cylinder on particle in axis—Right cone on particle at vertex—Positive and negative discs—Variation SECTIONS 438—447 448, 449 450—452 453 454 455, 456 457—462 463—470 471, 472
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