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"Centrifugal" Quotes from Famous Books

... the matter," said Algebra gravely, adjusting his spectacles, "is that you naturally suppose that if you bend so far out of the perpendicular, the laws of gravity must cause you to fall. But that is because you omit the centrifugal force from your consideration; remember what centrifugal force is, Buller, and it will give ...

— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough

... Borrow ever wrote. The book falls off a little towards the close, which is, if possible, even more abrupt and inconclusive than that of "Lavengro" itself. In the appendix, the bigotries, hatreds, and centrifugal propensities which made up the George Borrow of 1850-57 were emphasized and underlined for the benefit of the flunkeys, vipers, and "yahoos" who had dared to asperse his autobiography. He never carried his story on from 1825 to 1832 or wrote the once projected "Bible in Russia"; ...

— George Borrow - Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 • Thomas Seccombe

... earth cannot very well fall toward itself, can it? The sun is pulling on it, though; so the earth could fall into the sun, and it would do so, if it were not swinging around the sun so fast. You will see how this keeps it from falling into the sun when you come to the section on centrifugal force. ...

— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... into shallow pans, in which most of it immediately crystallizes. The crystalline portion forms the raw sugar of commerce; the remaining part is molasses. The whole mass is then shovelled into a centrifugal machine which in a few minutes separates the ...

— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

... main track diagonally, without seeing it— I came upon the portable engine and centrifugal pump belonging to Runnymede, set up for work at ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

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