: A Treatise on Mechanics by Kater Henry Lardner Dionysius - Mechanics

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PROPERTIES OF MATTER.

Organs of Sense.--Sensations.--Properties or Qualities.--Observation. --Comparison and Generalisation.--Particular and general Qualities.-- Magnitude.--Size.--Volume.--Lines.--Surfaces.--Edges.--Area.--Length. --Impenetrability.--Apparent Penetration.--Figure.--Different from Volume.--Atoms.--Molecules.--Matter separable.--Particles.--Force.-- Cohesion of Atoms.--Hypothetical Phrases unnecessary.--Attraction. 1

PROPERTIES OF MATTER, CONTINUED.

Divisibility.--Unlimited Divisibility.--Wollaston's micrometric Wire. --Method of making it.--Thickness of a Soap Bubble.--Wings of Insects. --Gilding of Wire for Embroidery.--Globules of the Blood.-- Animalcules.--Their minute Organisation.--Ultimate Atoms.--Crystals.-- Porosity.--Volume.--Density.--Quicksilver passing through Pores of Wood.--Filtration.--Porosity of Hydrophane.--Compressibility.-- Elasticity.--Dilatability.--Heat.--Contraction of Metal used to restore the Perpendicular to Walls of a Building.--Impenetrability of Air.--Compressibility of it.--Elasticity of it.--Liquids not absolutely incompressible.--Experiments.--Elasticity of Fluids.-- Aeriform Fluids.--Domestic Fire Box.--Evolution of Heat by compressed Air. 9

INERTIA.

Inertia.--Matter Incapable of spontaneous Change.--Impediments to Motion.--Motion of the Solar System.--Law of Nature.--Language used to express Inertia sometimes faulty.--Familiar Examples of Inertia. 27

ACTION AND REACTION.

Inertia in a single Body.--Consequences of Inertia in two or more Bodies.--Examples.--Effects of Impact.--Motion not estimated by Speed or Velocity alone.--Examples.--Rule for estimating the Quantity of Motion.--Action and Reaction.--Examples of.--Velocity of two Bodies after Impact.--Rule for finding the common Velocity after Impact.--Magnet and Iron.--Feather and Cannon Ball impinging. --Newton's Laws of Motion.--Inutility of.--Familiar Effects resulting from Consequences of Inertia. 34

COMPOSITION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCE.

ATTRACTION.

Impulse.--Mechanical State of Bodies.--Absolute Rest.--Uniform and rectilinear Motion.--Attractions.--Molecular or atomic.--Interstitial Spaces in Bodies.--Repulsion and Attraction.--Cohesion.--In Solids and Fluids.--Manufacture of Shot.--Capillary Attractions.--Shortening of Rope by Moisture.--Suspension of Liquids in capillary Tubes.-- Capillary Siphon.--Affinity between Quicksilver and Gold.--Examples of Affinity.--Sulphuric Acid and Water.--Oxygen and Hydrogen.--Oxygen and Quicksilver.--Magnetism.--Electricity and Electro-Magnetism.-- Gravitation.--Its Law.--Examples of.--Depends on the Mass.-- Attraction between the Earth and detached Bodies on its Surface.-- Weight.--Gravitation of the Earth.--Illustrated by Projectiles.-- Plumb-Line.--Cavendish's Experiments. 63

TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY.

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