Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... earth The to Newton tive attraction reaches the moon and is the force holding the moon in its orbit , we must know the radius of the earth and the distance of the moon , in order to compare the acceleration due to gravity at the earth's ...
... earth The to Newton tive attraction reaches the moon and is the force holding the moon in its orbit , we must know the radius of the earth and the distance of the moon , in order to compare the acceleration due to gravity at the earth's ...
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... earth and on Jupiter as an illustration . In round numbers the distance of Jupiter from the sun is five times the distance of the earth . Hence if the sun's gravitative force varies inversely according to the square of the distance ...
... earth and on Jupiter as an illustration . In round numbers the distance of Jupiter from the sun is five times the distance of the earth . Hence if the sun's gravitative force varies inversely according to the square of the distance ...
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... earth's surface is nothing but a measure of the force by which the object and the earth tend to move together , and since the earth is constant for all such objects , weight is proportional to mass.1 Thus the conception of mass as a ...
... earth's surface is nothing but a measure of the force by which the object and the earth tend to move together , and since the earth is constant for all such objects , weight is proportional to mass.1 Thus the conception of mass as a ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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