 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...exist. But notwithstanding the amount of deflection of a planet from a tangent, even in any little time, is equal to the versed sine of the arc described by the planet in such little time, yet such versed sine, being greater in amount or not of the same amount... | |
 | Charles Talbot Porter - Indicators for steam-engines - 1868 - 154 pages
...half, and that to an extent greater than has commonly been supposed. The actual motion of the piston is equal to the versed sine of the arc described by the crank, plus the versed sine of the arc described by the connecting-rod duriug one-half of the stroke,... | |
 | Charles Talbot Porter - Indicators for steam-engines - 1868 - 160 pages
...half, and that to an extent greater than has commonly been supposed. The actual motion of the piston is equal to the versed sine of the arc described by the crank, phis the versed sine of the arc described by the connecting-rod duriug one-half of the stroke,... | |
 | John Bourne - Steam-engines - 1873 - 510 pages
...shall move, not in a straight line, but in an arc, tho versed sine of which is equal to the yersed sine of the arc described by the point of attachment...side-rod. As the bottom of the side-rod is attached to the heam and the top to the cross-head, and as the hottom moves in an arc and the top in a straight line,... | |
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... of time. The first of these spaces is equal to the versed sine of the arc described by the moon in the same time, because that versed sine measures the translation of the moon from the tangent, produced by the centripetal force, and therefore may... 