Elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1901)
White, Charles J · New York: J. Wiley & sons · leaf 155
. 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… … K Fig. 62 ine GHIK the surroundkig shell of water. Let M be the moon.The attraction of the moon on the solid mass of the earth is the TIDES. 147 same that it would be if the whole mass were concentrated atthe point E. Now since, by the law of gravitation, the at-traction of the moon on any two…
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