A Course of Lectures in Natural PhilosophyJ. Nourse, 1767 - 404 pagine |
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Pagina vi - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phaenomena of Nature?
Pagina 200 - He first established the truth that a body plunged in a fluid loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of an equal volume of the fluid it displaces.
Pagina 120 - ... to the weight, as the height of the plane to the length...
Pagina 210 - ... of longitudinal vibrations (as of sound) along a bar or cord, is equal to the velocity acquired by a body in falling from a height equal to half the length of the modulus*.
Pagina 286 - Now that the fine of the angle of incidence is to the fine of the angle of refraction...
Pagina 290 - ... and the ultra-marine blue of a faint obfcure and dark red. And if they be held together in the blue homogeneal light, they will both appear blue; but the ultra-marine will appear of a ftrongly luminous and refplent blue, and the cinnaber of a faint and dark blue.
Pagina 233 - Vapour. The Particles when they are fhaken off from Bodies by Heat or Fermentation, fo foon as they are beyond the reach of the Attraction of the Body, receding from it, and alfo from one another with great...