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Page 58 - The areas of circles are to each other as the squares of their diameters.
Page 24 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 67 - To find the solidity of a spheroid. Rule. — Multiply the square of the revolving axis by the fixed axis: and the product, multiplied by .5236, will give the solidity.
Page 88 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Page 88 - ... that there may be a balance between the power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power.
Page 133 - ... the quotient is the centrifugal force when the weight of the body is 1.
Page 24 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 68 - ... by •5236 ; then say, as the square of the fixed axis is to the square of the revolving axis, so is the former product to the solidity.
Page 43 - Rule, Multiply the difference between the root of the integer part of the given number, and the root of the next higher...
Page 91 - ... when the power acts parallel to the plane, the length of the plane is to the weight, as the height of the plane is to the power; for the greater the angle, the greater the height.