 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...body will fall or be overset. This line is called the line of direction, because it is the line which the centre of gravity would describe, if the body were suffered to fall. J82. Illustration. Fig. 17 represents a loaded wagon on the declivity of a hill. The line CF represents... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...motion. LVII. If a line be drawn perpendicular to the horizon, from the centre of gravity of a body, it is called the Line of Direction, because it is the line which the centre of gravity would describe if the body were suffered to fall. LVIII. While the line... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...body will fall or be overset. This line is called the line of direction, because it is the line which the centre of gravity would describe, if the body were suffered to fall. 182. Illostration. Fig. 17 represents a loaded wagon on the declivity of a hill. The line CF represents... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 286 pages
...as the weights or bodies A and B ; that is, as AC : BC : : B : A. If a line be drawn from the center of gravity of a body, perpendicular to the horizon,...called the line of direction, because it is the line the center of gravity would describe if the body fell freely. Thus, the adjoining figure represents... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1852 - 604 pages
...line, the distances from the common centre of gravity are reciprocally as the weights of the bodies. If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a...to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, being the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely. The centre of gyration... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1852 - 600 pages
...line, the distances from the common centre of gravity are reciprocally as the weights of the bodiesIf a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a body,...to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, being the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freelyThe centre, of gyration... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...line, the distances from the common centre of gravity are reciprocally as the weights of the bodies. If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a...to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, being the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely. The centrt of gyration... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1869 - 664 pages
...each other, so that if a body be suspended by the centre of gravity, it will rest in any position. If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a...that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely. It is the property of this line that while it MECHANICS. falls within the base upon which... | |
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If a line be drawn from the centre of gravity of a body perpendicular to the horizon, it is called the line of direction, because it is the line that the centre of gravity would describe if the body fell freely. 
