PROBLEMA.

_Vires determinare quibus perturbatur motus Satellitis circa Primarium

suum revolventis._

Exhibeat jam sphærois prædicta planetam quemvis figurâ hac donatum,

et corpus S satellitem circa planetam tanquàm primarium gyrantem.

Quantitas materiæ globo sphæroidis interiori incumbentis æqualis est

4_bbc_D ⁄ 3_a_ sive 4_bc_D ⁄ 3 proximè, et si materia illa locaretur

in centro sphæroidis C, attraheret satellitem S secundum SC vi 4_bc_D

⁄ 3_l_², quæ reducta ad directionem SD fit 4_bck_D ⁄ 3_l_³, et ad

directionem DC fit 4_bch_D ⁄ 3_l_³. Cum igitur vis 4_bc_D ⁄ 3_l_² non

turbat motum satellitis, utpote quæ tendat ad centrum motûs et quadrato

distantiæ ab eodem centro sit reciprocè proportionalis, vires illæ

4_bck_D ⁄ 3_l_³, 4_bch_D ⁄ 3_l_³, in quas resolvitur, etiam motum non

turbabunt. Itaque ex vi D × _c_ × (4_kb_ ⁄ 3_l_³ - 4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ +

2_khhb_³ ⁄ _l_⁷) auferatur vis 4_bck_D ⁄ 3_l_³, et ex vi D × _c_ ×

(4_hb_ ⁄ 3_l_³ + 2_hb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ - 2_hkkb_³ ⁄ _l_⁷) auferatur 4_bch_D

⁄ 3_l_³, et remanebunt vires D × _c_ × - (4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ + 2_khhb_³ ⁄

_l_⁷), D × _c_ × (2_hb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ - 2_hkkb_³ ⁄ _l_⁷), motuum satellitis

S perturbatrices. Designetur vis D × _c_ × (2_hb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ - 2_hhkb_³ ⁄

_l_⁷) per rectam S_r_ (_Fig. 2._) ac resolvatur in vim S_q_ tendentem

ad centrum planetæ primarii C et ob triangula similia S_rq_, SDC,

æqualem D × _c_ × (2_b_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁴ - 2_kkb_³ ⁄ _l_⁶), existentibus ut

priùs, SD = _k_, DC = _h_, SC = _l_; et in vim _rq_ rectæ SD parallelam

et æqualem D × _c_ × (2_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ - 2_k_³_b_³ ⁄ _l_⁷); atque hæc vis

posterior subducta ex vi D × _c_ × - (4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ + 2_khhb_³⁄_l_⁷)

relinquet D × _c_ × 4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ pro vi perturbatrice in directione

SD. Unde cum massa tota planetæ sit 2_ab_D ⁄ 3, gravitas satellitis

tota in planetam erit 2_ab_D ⁄ 3_l_² proximé, vel etiam 2_bb_D ⁄ 3_l_²,

et hæc gravitas est ad vim D × _c_ × 4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ ut 1 ad 6_kbc_ ⁄

5_l_³.

Deinde vis illius D × _c_ × 4_kb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁵ secundum SD pars ea quæ agit

in directione SC est D × _c_ × 4_kkb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁶, quæ addita vi Sq dat D

× _c_ × (2_b_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁴ - 6_kkb_³ ⁄ 5_l_⁶) vim perturbatricem tendentem

ad centrum planetæ primarii, atque hæc vis est ad satellitis gravitatem

2_bb_D ⁄ 3_l_² in primarium ut 3_bc_ ⁄ 5_l_² - 9_kkbc_ ⁄ 5_l_⁴ ad 1.

_Q. E. I._

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