Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 86
In denning a level surface, we said that it is everywhere per-pendicular to the direction of gravity ; more strictly speaking, it isperpendicular to the resultant of gravity and the centrifugal force dueto the earths rotation on its axis Were it not for the centrifugalforce, the surface of the…
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