[Newton's Second Law apparatus]

[Newton's Second Law apparatus]

Negative

Charles Forbes

Maker
American, 1844–1917

[Newton's Second Law apparatus]

Gelatin silver negative
Museum accession
TextTo demonstrate the law. Or that if one body is acted upon by two forces, one horizontal and the other vertical, it will fall in the same time to the floor from the same height as an other body acted upon by only the vertical force.

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