Elements of natural philosophy (Volume 2-3) . 12 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Fig. Their reaction are equal, a disturbed consequences. atom will 1)6 Urged back tO- wards its position of neutralityby a force whose intensity isproportional to the distance ofthe atom from that point. Moreover, supposing the atomA, Fig. 4, to be kept station-ary, and the points E, and E\ to mark the limits ofthe disturbance of the other atom, this latter will returnto its position of neutrality D\ with a living force due tothe action of the force of restitution over the path E D\or E D; it will, therefore, pass the poi
Elements of natural philosophy (Volume 2-3) . 12 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Fig. Their reaction are equal, a disturbed consequences. atom will 1)6 Urged back tO- wards its position of neutralityby a force whose intensity isproportional to the distance ofthe atom from that point. Moreover, supposing the atomA, Fig. 4, to be kept station-ary, and the points E, and E\ to mark the limits ofthe disturbance of the other atom, this latter will returnto its position of neutrality D\ with a living force due tothe action of the force of restitution over the path E D\or E D; it will, therefore, pass the point D\ after whichthe direction of the action will be reversed, the livingforce will be destroyed, the atom will again return to itsPerpetual osciiia- position of neutrality, which it will pass as before, and fortion; the same reason, and thus be kept in perpetual oscillation. But the action between the two atoms of the molecule be-ing reciprocal, the atom A will not remain stationary, butwill move in the same direction as the disturbed atom andtend to preserve its neutral
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