centripetal

• Moreover, personality, that subtle essence, exercises a kind of centripetal force, attracting not only the devotion but the imaginations of those who come within its influence. —  Mahomet
• Victory on the other hand often has a centripetal effect. —  Slugger O'Toole
• Further, the centrifugal force is also subject to the same law of intensity as the centripetal force, and moreover takes exactly the same path which the centripetal force takes So that we have only to prove that they both agree in another particular, viz. —  Aether and Gravitation
• 19). Second, it had to follow exactly the same path as the centripetal force or motion, which was that of a straight line joining the centre of gravity of two bodies, as for example the earth and the sun (Art. —  Aether and Gravitation
• 21). Fourth, its intensity was to be governed by the law of inverse squares, the same as the centripetal force or Gravitation Attraction was governed (Art. —  Aether and Gravitation

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