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