 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...is equally distributed in all directions about this point ; so that, if it be supported, the whole body will remain at rest in any position in which it may be. This point is called the centre of gravity. 106. It will be evident, from' what has been stated, that... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 336 pages
...is equally distributed in all directions about this point ; so that, if it be supported, the whole body will remain at rest in any position in which it may be. This point is called the centre of gravity. 106. It will be evident, from'what has been stated, that... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...supported on u point, or axis, and the body is free to turn round such axis, the body will, in that case, remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed ; for, according to what has been already stated, the resultant of the gravitating forces of all its particles... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Electricity - 1858 - 438 pages
...supported on a point, or axis, and the body is free to turn round such axis, the body will, in that case, remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed ; for, according to what has been already stated, the resultant of the gravitating forces of all its particles... | |
 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 pages
...the centre of gravity be supported on a point or axis, and the body is free to turn round such axis, the body will remain at rest in any position in which it can be placed. This result follows necessarily from the last ; for, as the point of application of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Physics - 1866 - 428 pages
...supported on a point, or axis, and the body is free to turn round such axis, the body will, in that case, remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed; for, according to what has been already stated, the resultant of the gravitating forces of all its particles... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Philosophy - 1877 - 452 pages
...whole of them shall just fall at the same point as the centre of gravity of the body : then, as before, the body will remain at rest in any position in which it may be left. XI. PROPERTIES OF THE CENTRE OP GRAVITY. 176. One of the most important facts relating to the... | |
 | Samuel Philip Sadtler, Virgil Coblentz - Chemistry - 1900 - 948 pages
...the centre of weight or attraction. It is that point in a body at which, if supported, the whole mass will remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed. In a sphere of uniform density this centre of gravity will exactly accord with the centre of the mass... | |
 | Samuel Philip Sadtler, Virgil Coblentz - Chemistry - 1908 - 942 pages
...centre of weight or attraction. It is that point in a body at which, if supported, the whole mass wjll remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed. In a sphere of uniform density this centre of gravity will exactly accord with the centre of the mass;... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1914 - 610 pages
...through the center of gravity of a body Is called the line of dirrrtion. At the center of gravity a body will remain at rest In any position In which...the direction of a vertical line passing through the center of gravity, and thin resultant will be supported when the center of gravity is supported. We... | |
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If the centre of gravity of a body be supported on a point, or axis, and the body is free to turn round such axis, the body will, in that case, remain at rest in any position in which it may be placed ; for, according to what has been already stated,... 