The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1901)
White, Charles J. (Charles Joyce), 1839-1917 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; · leaf 151
In order to examine the phenomena of the tides, we will con-sider the earth to be a solid globe, surrounded by a shell ofwater of uniform depth. The centrifugal force induced by therotation of the earth would tend to give a spheroidal form tothis shell of water; but as we wish simply to examine the… … Fig. 62. ine OHIK the surroundkig shell of water. Let if be the moon.The attraction of the moon on the solid mass of the earth is th« TIDES. 147 same that it would be if the whole mass were concentrated atthe point E. Xow since, by the law of gravitation, the at-traction of the moon on any two…
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