The Principles of Mechanics ...: To which is Now Added, an Appendix; Containing Explanatory Notes, Illustrations, and Observations. A New Edition, with Important Corrections ...Knight and Lacey at the James Watt, 1825 - 318 pages |
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Page xiv
... parallel to the horizon , but by buttons descend- ing in a line perpendicular to it . In cold weather , he used to wear , when he grew old , what he called shin- covers , Now these shin - covers were made of old sack- ing , tied with a ...
... parallel to the horizon , but by buttons descend- ing in a line perpendicular to it . In cold weather , he used to wear , when he grew old , what he called shin- covers , Now these shin - covers were made of old sack- ing , tied with a ...
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... parallel to one another , and perpendicular to the horizon : and they always tend perpendi- cular to the horizon by their weight . For this is true as to sense , because the lines of their direction meet only at the centre of the earth ...
... parallel to one another , and perpendicular to the horizon : and they always tend perpendi- cular to the horizon by their weight . For this is true as to sense , because the lines of their direction meet only at the centre of the earth ...
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... parallel to BD , by Axiom 2 , will not alter the velocity towards the line BD ; the body therefore will arrive at BD in the same time , whether the force in direction AC be impressed or not : therefore , at the end of the time , it will ...
... parallel to BD , by Axiom 2 , will not alter the velocity towards the line BD ; the body therefore will arrive at BD in the same time , whether the force in direction AC be impressed or not : therefore , at the end of the time , it will ...
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... parallel to its former direction . Cor . 5. ( Fig . 2. Pl . I. ) If two forces , as AB , AC , act in the di- rections AB , AC , respectively , draw AR to the middle of the right line BC , and 2 AR is the force compounded out of these ...
... parallel to its former direction . Cor . 5. ( Fig . 2. Pl . I. ) If two forces , as AB , AC , act in the di- rections AB , AC , respectively , draw AR to the middle of the right line BC , and 2 AR is the force compounded out of these ...
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... parallel to the surface DB ; then the surface DB receives the perpendicular force EB , and the obstacle O the parallel force DB ; take away the obstacle O , and the force DB will move the body B in a direction parallel to the surface ...
... parallel to the surface DB ; then the surface DB receives the perpendicular force EB , and the obstacle O the parallel force DB ; take away the obstacle O , and the force DB will move the body B in a direction parallel to the surface ...
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Page xxv - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Page 155 - ... provided the elbow of one of the handles be at right angles to that of the other. And with a fly, or heavy wheel, applied to it, a man may do...
Page 131 - To shew that the resultant thrust on any plane surface under fluid pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the surface and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface.
Page xvii - Being preceded and led by- a boy, hired for that purpose, he crawled in slow and solemn state, at the rate of a mile and a half in an hour, till in due time he arrived at Darlington, and was conducted, in the same state, to the great entertainment of the spectators, through the streets to the inn where he wished to refresh himself and his beast. What idea Emerson himself entertained of the velocity with which the animal could move, appears from this, that when a neighbour of his, from Hurworth, asked...
Page 110 - ... in a few hours. Now, the weight of a column of air of the height of the atmosphere is equal to that of a column of mercury twenty-eight inches high, or of a column of water of the height of about thirty-three feet.
Page xxv - Force is a power exerted on a body to move it. If it act but for a moment, it is called the force of percussion or impulse. If it act constantly, it is called an accelerative force.
Page 50 - If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a body perpendicular to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, because it is the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely.
Page 44 - For since the time of vibration is to the time of descent through half the length of the pendulum, as the circumference of a circle to its diameter, that is, as 3.14159 to 1?
Page 14 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 99 - ... the great limbs is stronger than that of the small ones, and the wood in the heart of a sound tree is strongest of all. I have also found by experience, that a piece of timber, which has borne a great weight for a small time, has broke with a far less weight, when left upon it for a far longer time.