Chapter

 1 II    |         endowed with an initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second,
 2 IV    |         with sufficient initial velocity? and, consequently, at what
 3 IV    |  provided it possess an initial velocity of 1,200 yards per second;
 4 IV    |        continuously its initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second,
 5 IV    |        inasmuch as that initial velocity will be continually decreasing,
 6 IV    |       propelled with an initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second.~
 7 VII   |   communicate to a projectile a velocity of 12,000 yards per second.
 8 VII   |     their projectile an initial velocity of 500 yards a second. The
 9 VII   |   distance of six miles, with a velocity of 800 yards per second—
10 VII   |          I believe, the maximum velocity ever attained?”~“It is so,”
11 VII   |        our starting point, this velocity of 800 yards. We must increase
12 VII   |         means of producing this velocity, I will call your attention
13 VIII  |      ever transmit a sufficient velocity to such a mighty mass. The
14 VIII  |     require an enormous initial velocity; and you are well aware
15 IX    |        imparts to projectiles a velocity four times superior to that
16 X     |        shells, at very moderate velocity, the captain was obliged
17 X     |        upon any body whatever a velocity of 12,000 yards per second;
18 X     |   second; that even with such a velocity a projectile of such a weight
19 X     |       still, even regarding the velocity to be acquired, and granting
20 X     | multiplied by the square of its velocity, would seriously endanger
21 XIX   | gentlemen, may imagine that the velocity we propose to impart to
22 XIX   |         of the planets! And her velocity is constantly decreasing.
23 XXII  |      projectile rose with great velocity, described a majestic parabola,
24 XXVIII|      circular motion of extreme velocity, and it is now pursuing
25 XXVIII|          we do not yet know the velocity of its passage. The distance
26 XXVIII|      zenith; and its initiatory velocity was fixed at twelve thousand
27 IV    |      that we must calculate the velocity, since we know already that
28 IV    |        we know already that the velocity at departure was exactly
29 V     |      evident that an initiatory velocity of seventeen thousand yards
30 IX    |  certain degree; though its own velocity also drew it in an oblique
31 IX    |       know now that its initial velocity was greater than they supposed.”~“
32 X     |      much less than its initial velocity— but eight or nine times
33 Not   | business with the wrong exhaust velocity of the gun >is also a bit