XIV. An account of some experiments on rigidity produced by centrifugal force
XIV. An account of some experiments on rigidity produced by centrifugal force
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10.1080/14786447808639394
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1878-02
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John Aitken F.R.S.E.
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作者：
John Aitken F.R.S.E.
(字牌III.-vii)这些实验没有包含许多新的东西，许多问题以前是威廉·汤姆森爵士和其他人用数学方法解决的。然而，它们有助于填补我们实验动力学中的一个非常明显的空白；人们希望它们能使普通读者对所谓的离心力的作用形成更清楚的概念，离心力的基本作用经常被误解。这种误解的倾向主要是由两个原因引起的：-我们缺乏离心力的实验说明(我们几乎所有的实验都只说明了这个力在一个中心和一个平面上的作用)；另一个原因是这个力的名字，离心力这个词的意思是“飞离中心”，这引起了这样的想法，即当物体绕着中心旋转时，有一个圆圈作用于它，使它飞离中心。可以引入一些词来更准确地表达这股力量的作用--这将大大有助于消除目前的混乱。詹姆斯·汤姆森教授在1876年格拉斯哥英国协会的一篇论文中反对离心力这个词，保留它只是因为它本身[这些实验在1875-76年的会议期间部分传达给了爱丁堡皇家学会，也部分传达给了格拉斯哥哲学学会，并在那些学会的论文集上发表了轻微的描述。附有仪器图纸的完整说明现已首次出版。--WT]由W·汤姆森爵士于1877年12月发表。[P]~il.麦格。1878年2月，第5卷，第29号。G
[Plates III.-VII.] T HE experiments do not contain much that is new, many oi the problems having previously been mathematically wrought ont by Sir William Thomson and others. They, however, help to fill up a very evident gap in our experimental dynamics; and it is hoped they will enable the general reader to form a clearer idea of the action of the so-called centrifugal force, a force the fundamental action of which is often misunderstood. This tendency to misunderstanding has arisen principally fi'om two causes:---the one being the paucity of our experimental illustrations of centrifugal force (almost all our experiments only illustrate the action of this force round one centre and in one plane); the other cause being the name which has been applied to this force, the word centrifugal meaning" to fly from the centre," which has given rise to the idea that there is a fbrce acting on a body when revolving round a centre tending to cause it to fly away from that centre. It'some word more correctly expressive of the action of this force could be introduced~ it would do much ta remove the present confusion. Professor James Thomson~ in a paper before the British Association at Glasgow in 1876, objects to the word centrifugal, and only retains it on account of its very [The experiments were in part communicated to the Royal Society, Edinburgh, and also in part to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, during the session 1875-76, and slight accounts published in the Proceedings of those Societies. A complete account, with drawings of the apparatus~ is now published for the first time.--WT] Communicated by Sir W. Thomson, Dec. 1877. _P]~ il. Mag. S. 5. Vol. 5. No. 29. Feb. 1878. G