Chapter
1 VI | proportional diminution of speed will be certain to succeed
2 XI | quitted the city with a speed of thirty miles an hour.~
3 II | pressure of the initiatory speed of more than 11,000 yards,
4 II | minutes; and if our initiatory speed has not been checked by
5 II | estimate the diminution of speed by friction?”~“In the proportion
6 II | then, we had an initiatory speed of 12,000 yards, on leaving
7 II | leaving the atmosphere this speed would be reduced to 9,165
8 II | She advanced with great speed, and seemed to describe
9 II | moon is so small, and its speed so great, that the inhabitants
10 II | implies a wonderful rate of speed.”~“Do all astronomers admit
11 II | and if our initiatory speed of twelve thousand yards
12 II | with an ever-decreasing speed. Then an irresistible drowsiness
13 III | an uniformly decreasing speed was crossing the sky.~
14 IV | the projectile’s excessive speed, for it seemed absolutely
15 IV | the earth perceives its speed, which, however, is at the
16 IV | calculate what initiatory speed the projectile ought to
17 IV | calculate the initiatory speed?”~“Nothing can be easier,”
18 IV | calculated the initiatory speed of our car?”~“Yes, my worthy
19 IV | ought to be the initiatory speed of the projectile, and that
20 IV | can find what initiatory speed it was necessary to give
21 IV | can always tell you its speed at any point of its transit.”~“
22 IV | in that equation, is the speed which the projectile will
23 IV | one-third of its initiatory speed.”~“As much as that?”~“Yes,
24 IV | Nicholl, “to find out the speed of the projectile when it
25 IV | zero, that is to say, the speed necessary for the projectile
26 IV | why, if at this moment our speed had already diminished one-third
27 IV | friction, the initiatory speed ought to have been——”~“Seventeen
28 IV | which only started with that speed——”~“Well?” asked Nicholl.~“
29 V | would have stopped if its speed had only been 12,000 yards
30 V | conclude that our initial speed, under the power of the
31 V | not mistaken. The initial speed had been, very fortunately,
32 VI | their regularly decreasing speed.~Now when they observed
33 VI | under its formidable initial speed, wished to know what the
34 VI | failed; but even then its speed would diminish by degrees,
35 VI | had struck the meteor, its speed thus suddenly checked would
36 VI | the same thing) with equal speed whatever be their weight
37 VII | than the projectile, whose speed was evidently diminishing,
38 VII | had they felt how their speed had decreased. It would
39 VIII | body having no principle of speed or displacement in itself,
40 VIII | attain this point without speed, having lost all trace of
41 VIII | terrestrial.~2. Or, its speed failing, and unable to reach
42 VIII | animated with sufficient speed to enable it to reach the
43 VIII | fall with ever-increasing speed on to the surface of the
44 IX | force was concerned; its own speed would carry it beyond the
45 IX | degree the projectile’s speed. These rockets were to burn
46 IX | Might it not be an excess of speed?” answered Nicholl; “for
47 IX | Barbicane. “An excess of speed, if the direction of the
48 IX | leagues distant, that its speed was becoming uniform— fresh
49 IX | more than 700 leagues. The speed of the projectile seemed
50 X | diminished very rapidly under its speed, though that was much less
51 XII | advance with almost uniform speed around the lunar disc. The
52 XIII | of the disc. Its motive speed, comparatively so moderate,
53 XIV | projectile had not fallen? If its speed had been enormous, he could
54 XIV | with a relatively moderate speed, that resistance to the
55 XV | both the direction and the speed of the projectile.~Perhaps
56 XV | the other according to the speed with which it is animated,
57 XV | Barbicane. “With a certain speed it will assume the parabola,
58 XV | yards. It advanced at a speed of about one mile and a
59 XVI | shadow. Whatever had been its speed (and it could not have been
60 XIX | either the projectile’s speed will be insufficient, and
61 XIX | continued Barbicane, “its speed will be sufficient, and
62 XIX | No.”~“Nor diminish its speed?”~“No.”~“Not even by lightening
63 XIX | have checked their relative speed.~On the side of the terrestrial
64 XIX | estimating the projectile’s speed, but reasoning showed that
65 XIX | would attain its maximum of speed; and in the former its minimum.
66 XIX | reason to think that its speed would decrease up to this
67 XIX | it neared the moon. This speed would even become nil, if
68 XIX | simple means of checking this speed which is bearing us from
69 XIX | moment we may hope that its speed will be nil; then will be
70 XIX | endowed with too great a speed.”~“Very well reasoned,”
71 XIX | attraction would be reached. What speed would then animate the projectile?
72 XIX | one in the morning this speed ought to be and would be
73 XIX | of the travelers. If its speed was utterly annulled on
74 XIX | fearful fall had begun. The speed retained had borne the projectile
75 XIX | divert its course. This speed in going had carried it
76 XIX | strike the earth with a speed equal to that with which
77 XIX | mouth of the Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards in the last
78 XIX | arrive on the pavement at a speed of 240 miles per hour. Here
79 XIX | strike the earth with a speed of 115,200 miles per hour.~“
80 XXI | national navy arriving at full speed, with her bowsprit broken,
81 XXI | answer this argument, for the speed with which it was animated
82 XXIII| One engine only at full speed, drawing a triumphal carriage,
83 XXIII| Baltimore. It traveled at a speed of one hundred and sixty
84 XXIII| hour. But what was this speed compared with that which
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