 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...the axle : if this be done without a wheel to turn the axle, no mechanical assistance is received. The axle without a wheel is as impotent as a single...the bucket is raised with much less difficulty. The axle acts the part of the shorter arm of the lever, the wheel that of the longer arm. The velocity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Astronomy - 1839 - 262 pages
...powers, the want of power being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs. 31 and 32) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the axle describes a small one ; therefore... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...powers, the want of power being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs 31 and 32) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle In the same time that the axle describes a small one ; therefore... | |
 | George Grant - Knowledge and learning - 1849 - 328 pages
...the axle ; if this be done without a wheel to turn the axle, no mechanical assistance is received. The axle without a wheel is as impotent as a single...the bucket is raised with much less difficulty. The axle acts the part of the shorter arm of the lever, the wheel that of the longer arm. The velocity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1849 - 418 pages
...powers, the want of power being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs. 34 and 35) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the * A cylinder is a long circular... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1850 - 408 pages
...powers, the want of power being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs. 34 and 35) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the * A cylinder is a long circular body... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1852 - 200 pages
...powers, the want of power being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs. 34 and 35) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the • A cylinder is a long circular... | |
 | George Grant - 1852 - 260 pages
...difficulty. The axle acts the part of the shorter arm of the lever, the wheel that of the longer arm. The velocity of the circumference of the wheel is as much greater than that of the axle, as it is farther from the centre of motion ; for the •wheel describes a large circle in the same space of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Electricity - 1856 - 502 pages
.... , , .• .. T, . ., being compensated by velocity. It is evident (from the Figs. 34 and 35) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...the axle as it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the axle describes a small one ; therefore... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1856 - 472 pages
...constructed? , . . n , , Tl . ., being compensated by velocity, it is evident (from the Figs. 34 and 35) that the velocity of the circumference of the wheel is...much greater than that of the axle as it is further from-the centre of motion; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the axle describes... | |
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... time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is... 
