A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 273
old good in the case of the collision of inelastic bodies. The motion of this centre of gravity is most easily worked out graphicallyas follows: First, in Fig. 141, join the original places of the bodies A andB by a straight line, and mark on it G, the place of the centre of gravity;then take the… … Fig. 141. — Motion of Bodies relative to their Centre of Gravity. the two positions of the centre of gravity will show the direction and rapidityof its motion ; with reference to this point the two bodies will have oppositemotions proportional to their distances from it; that is, they will…
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