Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
ng united, produce anextraordinary tide, called the spring tide. Causes of the Opposite Tide-wave. 9^0. Figure 20.—Causes of the opposite tide-wave.— The principal cause of the tide-wave on the side of the earth oppositethe moon, is the difference of the moons attraction on the opposite sidesof the… … distance, the water on the side opposite to the moon will be attractedwith a force about ^ less than that which attracts the water on theside toward the moon; while the rigid part of the earth would be at-tracted with a force commensurate with the square of the distance fromits centre of gravity to…
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