The Earth's Beginning

About this eBook

Author

Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), 1840-1913

Credits

Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QB: Science: Astronomy

Subject

Nebular hypothesis

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59080

Release Date

March 17, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE EARTH’S BEGINNING
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. THE PROBLEM STATED.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE FIRE-MIST.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. NEBULÆ—APPARENT AND REAL.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. THE HEAT OF THE SUN.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. HOW THE SUN’S HEAT IS MAINTAINED.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE HISTORY OF THE SUN.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE EARTH’S BEGINNING.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. SPIRAL AND PLANETARY NEBULÆ.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE UNERRING GUIDE.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. THE UNITY OF MATERIAL IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST CONCORD.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. THE SECOND CONCORD.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. THE THIRD CONCORD.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. OBJECTIONS TO THE NEBULAR THEORY.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. THE BEGINNING OF THE NEBULA.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
24. 24.APPENDICES. — I.—ON THE HEAT GIVEN OUT IN THE CONTRACTION OF THE NEBULA. — § 1. Fundamental Theorems in the Attraction of Gravitation. — § 2. On the Energy between Two Attracting Masses. — § 3. On the Energy Given Out in the Contraction of the Nebula. — § 4. Evaluation of the Sun Heat Given Out in Contraction. — § 5. On the Further Contraction of the Sun and the Heat that may thus be Given Out. — § 6. On the Present Emission of Sun Heat. — § 7. On the Daily Contraction of the Sun Necessary to Supply the Present Expenditure of Heat. — II.—THE CONSERVATION OF MOMENT OF MOMENTUM. — § 8. Case where there are no forces. — § 9. A Geometrical Proposition. — § 10. Relation Between the Change of Moment of Momentum and the Force Acting on the Particle. — § 11. If Two or More Forces Act on a Point, then the Acceleration of the Moment of Momentum, due to the Resultant of these Forces, is Equal to the Algebraic Sum of the Moments of Momentum due to the Action of the Several Components. — § 12. If any Number of Particles be Moving in a Plane, and if they are not Subjected to any Forces save those which arise from their Mutual Actions, then the Algebraic Sum of their Moments of Momentum round any Point is Constant. — § 13. If a Particle of Mass m , is Moving in Space under the Action of any Force F, then the Projection of that Particle on any Fixed Plane will Move as if it were a Particle of Mass m Acted upon by that Component of F which is Parallel to the Plane . — § 14. On the Principal Plane of a System. — § 15. Collisions. — § 16. Friction and Tides.
25. 25.INDEX.

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