 | Sir Richard Phillips - Electricity - 1807 - 212 pages
...projecting spokes thai answer the same purpose as awheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis : or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Celestial mechanics - 1811 - 196 pages
...projecting spokes that answer the same purpose as a wheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 374 pages
...will be in equilibrio. Father. The second mechanical power is the Wheel and Axis> which gains power in proportion, as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; this machine may be referred to the principle of the lever. AB (Plate in. Fig. 22.) is the wheel,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 268 pages
...ascent, the rope to coil more than once the length- of the axis, because the advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is -greater than that of the axis ; so thatt if the circumference of the wheel be 12 times greater than that of the axis, 1 pound... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...it is further from the centre of motion : for the wheel describes a great circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one, therefore...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times less than the weight of... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 448 pages
...as their respective diameters ; consequently the advantage gained, by this mechanical power, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis, or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Hence the velocity... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...it is further from the centre of motion ; foil the wheel describes a great circle in the same space of time that the axle, describes a small one, therefore...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power twelves times less than the weight of the bucket,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 234 pages
...fastened to it, (Jig. 13,) or of a cylinder with projectingspokes,(/g. 14.) 74. The advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illus. If the diameter... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Science - 1827 - 234 pages
...as it is further from the centre of motion; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one; therefore...circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. Those who have ever drawn a bucket from a well by this machine, must have observed, that as the bucket... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 336 pages
...: for the wheel describes a great circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a Email one, therefore the power is increased in the same...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times less than the weight of... | |
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The velocity of the circumference of the wheel is as much greater than that of the axle, as it is further from the centre of motion : for the wheel describes a... 
