'An account of Some Experiment made to prove that the force of moving Bodies is proportional to their Velocities' by John Desaguliers
Reference number: RBO/11/63
Date: 1722
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To prove that the momentum of moving bodies is to be found by multiplying the masses into the velocities - in answer to those who stated that the force is proportional to the square of the velocity and to those who still defend the same opinion
Outlines 11 experiments
Two figures attached
Read to the Royal Society on 8 November 1722
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- RBO/11/63
- Earliest possible date
- 1722
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'An account of Some Experiment made to prove that the force of moving Bodies is proportional to their Velocities' by John Desaguliers, 1722, RBO/11/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_63/an-account-of-some-experiment-made-to-prove-that-the-force-of-moving-bodies-is-proportional-to-their-velocities-by-john-desaguliers, accessed on 12 April 2026
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Paper, 'An account of some experiments made to prove that the force of moving bodies is proportionable to their velocities (or rather that the momentum of moving bodies is to be found by multiplying the masses into the velocities) in answer to such who have sometime ago affirm'd, that that force is proportionable to the square of the velocity, and to those who still defend the same opinion' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Creator: John Theophilus Desaguliers Reference number: CLP/18ii/11
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-1724
1720-1724 Reference number: RBO/11
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