Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 89
asurements observations of the value of g mustbe reduced to the sea-level. The attraction of gravitation being inversel)as the square of the distance from the centre (66), we shall have g : g^ = : ^——-~ where g is the value of the acceleration of gravity atK (R +/i) the sea level, g^ its value at… … Fig. 5S. g. 72 Gravitation and Molecular Attraction. [82- But even at the sea-level the force of gravity varies in different parts inconsequence of the form of the earth. The earth is not a true sphere, butan ellipsoid, the major axis of which is 12,754,796 metres, and the minor12,712,160 metres.…
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