 | Joseph Denison - Mechanics - 1841 - 210 pages
...do. .. .. 4th .. .. (256 - 144) = 112 do. .. .. 5th .. .. (400 - 256) = 144 do. .. ..6th .. .. (576 - 400) =. 176 do. and so on. (6.) For since 64 feet...the ratio of the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and so on: and so on. [The word about is used in order to avoid noticing the fraction in the calculations... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...first. Hence, we arrive at the important conclusion that the spaces described in the succeeding seconds increase in the ratio of the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, &c. &c. 15. We shall now consider the spaces passed over, not in the seconds taken singly, but... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1867 - 562 pages
...erected upon it, if the area of the smallest section, pa, = 1, the area of all the other sections will increase in the ratio of the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, it. Consequently, if the whole length of any submarine cable be conceived to be divided into any number... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1869 - 200 pages
...first. Hence, we arrive at the important conclusion that the spaces described in the succeeding seconds increase in the ratio of the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 1 1, 13, &c. &c. Fig. 9. 15. We shall now consider the spaces passed over, not in the seconds taken... | |
 | Amédée Guillemin - Physics - 1872 - 756 pages
...following laws : — The squares of the diameters of the bright rings, seen by reflection, are related in the ratio of the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. The squares of the diameters of the dark rings are as the even numbers, 2, 4, 6, 8. In regard to the... | |
 | 1921 - 394 pages
...The space moved over in successive intervals of time by a body having constant acceleration will be in the ratio of the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. etc. In the case of machine . parts having variable acceleration the variation does not usually follow... | |
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... passed over in the 4th second is seven times that passed over in the 1st ; that the space of the 5th second is nine times that of the first ; and the space of the 6th second eleven times that of the first. Hence, we arrive at the important conclusion... 