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  • Staticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/statics

    STATICS, or the Doctrine of MOTION ; Its Laws, Velocity, Momentum, &c. Causes, as Gravity, Percussion, Communication, &c. Modifications, as Composition, Acceleration, Retardation, Reflection, Refraction, &c. Kinds, as Ascent, Descent, Central,...

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  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    etc. In this Sense, some Branches of the Mathematics are Arts, others Matters of Doctrine, or Science. See MATHEMATICS. Statics is wholly scientifical, as it takes up with the mere Contemplation of Motion: Mechanics, on the contrary, is an Art, as it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    the Motions arising from this Principle make the subject of that extensive branch of Mathematics, called Mechanics, or Statics; with the parts or appendages thereof, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, etc. See MECHANICS, STATICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics
  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Ellipsis, Parabola, Hyperbola, &c. Their Asymptotes, Foci, &c. Their Construction, Quadrature, Rectification, &c. 12 STATICS, or the Doctrine of MOTION ; Its Laws, Velocity, Momentum, &c. Causes, as Gravity, Percussion, Communication, &c. Modifications,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    But what overturns this account is that as the pressure of the air downwards increases, so, by the known laws of statics, does the resistance or the force with which the same fluid tends to repel or drive the body upwards again. See FLUID. Others insist...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics
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