 | 1809 - 596 pages
...solid of greatest attraction, at the extremity of its axis, where the attracted particle is placet), is exceedingly flat, approaching more nearly to a...superficies of any sphere can do, however great its radius.' The radius of curvature at B = -| a. 5. The attraction of the solid AC BIT, is to that of the sphere... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 516 pages
...great a radius, but that, at the point A, it will be within the curve of equal attraction. The solid of greatest attraction, then, at the extremity of...its radius. 4. To find the radius of curvature at B, the \ g other extremity of the axis, since y~=a'x7 — **, if the same curvature with ACB in B.... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...be within the curve of equal attraction. The solid of greatest attraction, then, at the extre. mity of its axis, where the attracted particle is placed,...more nearly to a plane than the superficies of any spherq can do, however great its radius. 4. To find the radius of curvature at B, the other 4 2 extremity... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1812 - 538 pages
...tbait, at the point A, it will be within the curve of equal attraction* THE. THE folid of greateft attraction, then, at the extremity of its axis, where...flat, approaching more nearly to a plane than the fuperficies of any fphere can do, however great its radius. 4. To find the radius of curvature at B,... | |
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... 0. The diameter, therefore, and the radius of curvature at A are infinite. In other words, no circle, having its centre in AB produced, and passing through A, can be described with so great a radius, but that, at the point A, it will be within the... 