School Science and Mathematics, Bind 6

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School Science and Mathematics Assoc., 1906

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Side 607 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Side 606 - 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. This force consists in the action only, and remains no longer in the body when the action is over. For a body maintains every new state it acquires, by its inertia only.
Side 322 - Spring, SN The natural replacement of white pine on old fields in New England.
Side 56 - VI., i and 33, already referred to, are proved, and also the proposition " that a straight line parallel to one side of a triangle divides the other two sides in the same ratio,
Side 481 - On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion.
Side 220 - ... further transformations could take effect. If, as has been argued, tidal friction has played so important a part in the history of the earth and moon, it might be expected that the like should be true of the other planets and satellites, and of the planets themselves in their relationship to the sun. But numerical examination of the several cases proves conclusively that this cannot have been the case. The relationship of the moon to the earth is in fact quite exceptional in the solar system,...
Side 397 - On the bank of a river there is a column 200 feet high supporting a statue 30 feet high. The statue to an observer on the opposite bank subtends an equal angle with a man 6 feet high standing at the base of the column: find the breadth of the river.
Side 756 - GEOGRAPHY stands for progress in geography teaching Teachers, from the Elementary School to the University, find THE JOURNAL almost indispensable, if they would keep in touch with that which is best in geography teaching. Every school library in the country should contain THE JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY, for it is not out of date at the end of the month.
Side 510 - A line parallel to the base of a triangle, and bisecting one side, bisects the other side, and the part intercepted between the two sides is equal to half the base.
Side 630 - From Cicuye they went to Quivira, which after their account is almost three hundred leagues distant, through mighty plains, and sandy heaths so smooth and wearisome, and bare of wood that they made heaps of ox-dung, for want of stones and trees, that they might not lose themselves at their return : for three horses were lost on that plain, and one Spaniard which went from his company on hunting.

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