A Kinetic Universe Author:John Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: force of 19—24, 54, P E G F of Fig. 1, L D K V of Fig. 1, is a force of the character of wind movement, and acting in the direction L D K V is the cause of the P... more »recession of the Equinoxes, and also of the Secular Retardation of the Earth's diurnal rotation, these phenomena arising from the two rectangular resultants or velocities of the force L D K V respectively, which therefore are to each other as Cos3 obliquity is to Sin2 obliquity. 163,—This kinetic movement of the atmosphere reaches directly down to the surface of the Earth in the trade wind zone, and produces kinetic and dynamic energy of the trade winds by direct action, an action prevailing in the equatorial regions between the circles of latitude of 30, that is, over half the globe, while recoil therefrom or reactionary currents prevail in the latitudes beyond 30 and largely give rise directly to the anti-trade winds. 164.—But the trade winds are really produced not only by direct action of the force LD K V, and the anti-trade winds, not only by recoil of the air moved by this force, as it makes impact with the ocean waters and solid Earth, but combined with and chiefly by outflow of air from the Tidal Circle, from the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, as given in arguments 19—24, 54, and their context, while if we take into consideration the inflow of air into the Tidal Circle and tropics to replenish the outflow and embrace the whole atmospheric circulation, then the atmospheric circulation regarded dynamically is ex- pressedby the forces, directions, and amounts of Precession and Nutation, and kinetically and barometrically by the tidal movements and currents of the ocean waters. 166.—We are now in a position to calculate the amount of Secular Retardation of the Earth's rotation, and give the quantity, so that...« less