 | 1840 - 772 pages
...their distances from the fulcrum l and the pressure on the fulcrum is equal to their sum. Prop. 3. If two forces acting perpendicularly on a straight...lever in opposite directions and on the same side of thv fulcrum halance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 366 pages
...the pullies being taken into account. 150. If two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight lever on the same side of the fulcrum, are inversely as...their distances from the fulcrum, they will balance each other. A uniform heavy rod, at a given point of which a given weight is attached, is sustained... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 226 pages
...ED COR. In nearly the same manner, by means of Prop. 4, we may prove the converse proposition ; that if two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum, balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum. * PROP. VI. To explain... | |
 | John Charles Snowball - Hydrostatics - 1838 - 114 pages
...C, and the pressure on C will be P+Q. Now P AE AB-BE 2BC-2.BN BC-BN CN Q == * S * = ~21. PROP. Hi. If two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum, balance each other, (i) they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum, and (2) the pressure... | |
 | Education - 1844 - 688 pages
...density, will produce the same effect by its weight as if it were collected at its middle point. 2. If two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions, and on the same side of the fulcrum, balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1847 - 40 pages
...barometer stands at 29 inches ? FIRST DIVISION. (B) 1. DEFINE Force, and explain how it is measured. 2. If two forces acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions, and on the same side of the fulcrum balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum 3. What is meant by the... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1849 - 560 pages
...their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the fulcrum is equal to their sum. Prop. 3. If two forces acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...mixture can be obtained, but an accurate common thermometer is at band. SECOND DIVISION.— (B.) 1. IF two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Hydrostatics - 1864 - 188 pages
...triangle, whose sides will represent the forces S'676923 Ibs., 3-416 Ibs., and3'i27Ibs. respectively. 2. If two forces, acting perpendicularly on a straight...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum, balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1864 - 694 pages
...their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the fulcrum U equal to their sum. Prop. 3. Tf two forces acting perpendicularly on a straight lever...opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum; and the pressure on the... | |
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If two forces acting perpendicularly on a straight lever in opposite directions and on the same side of the fulcrum balance each other, they are inversely as their distances from the fulcrum ; and the pressure on the fulcrum is equal to the difference... 
