Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 · Boston, Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · leaf 326
angle [470xii] which the plane passing through the right lines r and u makes with a fixed plane passing through the right line r ; the element of the spherical stratum [4'°XU1] will be* u~d u . dtf . dô . sin. 6. If we then put f for the distance of this element from the attracted point, we shall… … f (333a) In the plane triangle C A M, which is here drawn separately from the preceding figure, if we let fall from A, the perpendicular A D on C M, and put AM=f we shall have, CD— C A . cos. A C JVL = u . cos. 6, AD— C A . sin. A C M=u . sin. 6, MD — CM — C D — r — u . cos. 6, and since A JR2 = A…
Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity
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