 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 350 стор.
...always uniform, and therefore the effect will not be so either. I have discovered it, Mrs. B. ; since the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, the vibrations of the pendulum will be slower at the equator than at the poles. Mrs. B. You are perfectly... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 стор.
...spheroid ; that is, having its equatorial longer than its polar axis by about thirty-seven miles; hence, the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, because the centrifugal force of the earth at the equator diminishes the gravity: this is proved by... | |
 | 1825 - 610 стор.
...by about 17 miles, than if it passed from either of the poles to the same point, and, consequently, the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles; and it is likewise greatly diminished by the centrifugal force arising from the earth's rotation on... | |
 | 1825 - 424 стор.
...but, the earth having its equatorial longer than its polar axis, by rather more than thirty miles, the force of gravity is less at the equator, than at the poles, and this fact, as we shall presently find, is fully proved by the length of the pendulum varying in... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 стор.
...where the same, and therefore the effect will not be so either. I have discovered it, Mrs. B.; since the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, the vibrations of the pendulum will be slower at the former place than at the latter. Mrs. B. You are... | |
 | 1832 - 650 стор.
...of gravity being always the same, the velocity of the pendulum must consequently be uniform. But if the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, the vibrations of the pendulum «ill be slower. It was thus that the difference of gravity was discovered,... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 стор.
...always uniform, and therefore the effect will not be so either. I have discovered it, Mrs. B. ; since the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, the vibrations of the pendulum will be slower at the equator than at the poles. MRS. B. You are perfectly... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 380 стор.
...gravity decreases as the square of the distance from the centre increases, so that it is manifest that the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, in case the surface at the equator is farther from the centre than at the poles, which is the fact... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 стор.
...gravity decreases as the square of the distance from the centre increases, so that it is manifest that the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, in case the surface at the equato» is farther from the centre than at the poles, which is the fact... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 стор.
...gravity decreases as the square of the distance from the centre increases, so that it is manifest that the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles, in case the surface at the equator is farther from the centre than at the poles, which is the fact... | |
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Force of Gravity. — For two reasons the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles. 
