Newton's Principia : $b The mathematical principles of natural philosophyNewton, Isaac
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Newton's Principia : $b The mathematical principles of natural philosophy
Newton, Isaac
Celestial mechanics -- Early works to 1800; Mechanics -- Early works to 1800
COR. 1. If the velocity be expounded by the length GD, the space
described will be as the hyperbolic area DESR.
COR. 2. And if the point G be assumed any how, the point G will be
found, by taking GR to GD as the velocity at the beginning to the
velocity after any space RSED is described. The point G being given,
the space is given from the given velocity: and the contrary.
COR. 3. Whence since (by Prop. XI) the velocity is given from the
given[Pg 281] time, and (by this Prop.) the space is given from the given
velocity; the space will be given from the given time: and the contrary.
PROPOSITION XIII. THEOREM X.
Supposing that a body attracted downwards by an uniform gravity
ascends or descends in a right line; and that the same is resisted
partly in the ratio of its velocity, and partly in the duplicate ratio
thereof: I say, that, if right lines parallel to the diameters of a
circle and an hyperbola, be drawn through the ends of the conjugate
diameters, and the velocities be as some segments of those parallels
drawn from a given point, the times will be as the sectors of the
areas cut off by right lines drawn from the centre to the ends of the
segments; and the contrary.
CASE 1. Suppose first that the body is ascending, and from the centre
D, with any semi-diameter DB, describe a quadrant BETF of a circle,
and through the end B of the semi-diameter DF draw the indefinite line
BAP, parallel to the semi-diameter DF. In that line let there be given
the point A, and take the segment AP proportional to the velocity. And
since one part of the resistance is as the velocity, and another part
as the square of the velocity, let the whole resistance be as AP2 +
2BAP. Join DA, DP, cutting the circle in E and T, and let the gravity
be expounded by DA2, so that the gravity shall be to the resistance in
P as DA2 to AP2 + 2BAP; and the time of the whole ascent will be as
the sector EDT of the circle.
For draw DVQ, cutting off the moment PQ, of the velocity AP, and the
moment DTV of the sector DET answering to a given moment of time; and
that decrement PQ of the velocity will be as the sum of the forces of
gravity DA2 and of resistance AP2 + 2BAP, that is (by Prop. XII,
Book II, Elem.), as DP2. Then the area DPQ, which is proportional to
PQ, is as DP2, and the area DTV, which is to the area DPQ as DT2 to
DP2, is as the given quantity DT2. Therefore the area EDT decreases
uniformly according to the rate of the future time, by subduction of
given particles DTV, and is therefore proportional to the time of the
whole ascent. Q.E.D.
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