Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p083

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OL CG A. Chant motion was parallel to the surface of the earth, and found that in describing half their journey, 1200 miles, with this velocity, they would rise 17 miles. If the velocity gradually fell from 5:15 to 4°98 miles a second, the latter being attained when half the journey was completed, the rise would be half of this, that is, $°5 miles In traversing the second half of their path, I assumed that th velocity was gradually decreasing from 4:93 miles a second, the result being a slow...