A natural philosophy : embracing the most recent discoveries in the various branches of physics, and exhibiting the application of scientific principles in everyday life .. (1899)
Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn), 1826-1881 · New York, Cincinnati [etc.], American book company · leaf 66
rest.128. Path of a Projectile.—A projectile maybe thrownwith such force as to be borne some distance in a straightline, without having its direction sensibly altered by grav-ity or the airs resistance; as in the case of a cannon-ball.When, however, its velocity diminishes, the joint action ofthese… … Fig. 50 shows the path of a stone thrown obliquely from the hand. Thepropelling force sends it in a straight line to A, and would take it on in thesame direction to B, were it not that, as soon as its velocity becomes suffi-ciently diminished, gravity and the airs resistance give it a circular…
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