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" An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest or of uniform motion in a right line. "
The Origin and Economy of Energy in the Universe - Page 78
by Israel Kaufman - 1903 - 422 pages
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Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe

Michel Blay - History - 1998 - 230 pages
...the velocity and quantity of matter conjointly.41 Of impressed force (vis impressa): Definition IV An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body,...in order to change its state, either of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line.42 And of centripetal force (vis centripeta): Definition V A centripetal...
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The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

Peter Machamer - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 474 pages
...which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in a right line. This force is ever proportional to the body whose force it is; and differs nothing from the inactivity of the...
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Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics

Max Jammer - Science - 1999 - 290 pages
...Adam and Paul Tumery (Paris, 1905), vol. 8, Principia philosophise, pars secunda, cap. XXXVII, p. 62. action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line." 12 Or in the original Latin: "Vis impressa est actio in corpus exercita,...
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Idealization X: The Richness of Idealization, Volume 10

Izabella Nowakowa, Leszek Nowak - Philosophy - 2000 - 546 pages
...For foree /-' from the second axiom is defined in his Definition IV as follows: "An impressed foree is an action exerted upon a body. in order to change its state. either of rest. or of uniform motion in a right line" (Newton 1962. vol. 1. p 21. A foree defined in this manner does not...
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Excel Essential Skills: Science Revision Workbook

Donna Bennett - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 128 pages
...the force of gravity on a 1 .0 kg mass if the acceleration is 9.8 m/s/s ? F = ma F = 1 x9.8 = 9.8N A force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state of rest or its state of uniform motion in a straight line. Action tends to produce a change in motion....
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Cult of the Kill: Traditional Metaphysics of Rhetoric, Truth, and Violence ...

Gregory E. Desilet - Philosophy - 2002 - 343 pages
...the notion of "force" as that which causes a body to move. Heidegger quotes from Newton's Principia: "An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body,...in order to change its state, either of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line" [emphasis added] (264). Motion peculiar to a given body is a result...
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Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences: Volume II: On ...

J.J. Kockelmans - History - 1993 - 236 pages
...manner in which Newton states the second axiom. In Definition IV Newton defined the impressed force as an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest, or of a uniform motion in a right line. Axiom II lays down what the action exerted by a force consists in;...
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Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences: Volume II: On ...

J.J. Kockelmans - History - 1993 - 236 pages
...the second axiom. In Definition IV Newton defined the impressed force as an action 31 Ibid., p. 466. exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest, or of a uniform motion in a right line. Axiom II lays down what the action exerted by a force consists in;...
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A Modern Approach to Classical Mechanics

Harald Iro - Science - 2002 - 466 pages
...present state, whether it be of rest, or of movin9 uniformly forward ma ri9ht line. Definition IV: An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to chan9e its state, either of rest, or of movm9 uniformly forward in a ri9ht lme. Mach criticized Definition...
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The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to ...

Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy - Science - 2003 - 516 pages
...present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forwards in a right line. Definition IV. An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body,...in order to change its state, either of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line. Definition V. A centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn...
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