Matter and Motion
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ISBN13: 9780217017336
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONFIGURATION. 11 relative positions is called the Configuration of the system. A knowledge of the configuration of the system at a given instant implies a knowledge of the position of every point of the system with respect to every other point at that instant. Article V, ?Diagrams. The configuration of material systems may be represented in models, plans, or diagrams. The model or diagram is. supposed to resemble the material system only in form, not necessarily in any other respect. A .plan or a map represents on paper in two dimensions what may really be in three dimensions, and can only be completely represented by a model. We shall nse the term Diagram to signify any geometrical figure, whether plane or not, by means of which we study the properties of a material system. Thus, when we speak of the configuration of a system, the image which we form in our minds is that of a diagram, which completely represents the configuration, but which has none of the other properties of the material system. Besides diagrams of configuration we may have diagrams of velocity, of stress, andc., which do not represent the form of the system, but by means of which its relative velocities or its internal forces may be studied. Article VI.?A Material Particle. A body so small that, for the purposes of our investigation, the distances between its different parts may be neglected, is called a material particle. Thus in certain astronomical investigations the planets, and even the sun, may be regarded each as a material particle, because the difference of the actions of different parts of these bodies does not come under our notice. But we cannot treat them as material particles when we investigate their rotation. Even an atom, chapter{{Section 4the origin to the extremity o..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217017336 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217017339 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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