 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1836 - 540 pages
...it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one, therefore...the weight of the bucket would be able to raise it. CAROLINE. In raising water, there is commonly, I believe, instead of a wheel attached to the axle,... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of rtme that the axle describes a small one, therefore the...the weight of the bucket would be able to raise it. THE INCLINED PLANE. The fourth mechanical power is the inclined plane, This is nothing more than a... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...that the power applied at the circumference of the wheel must move as much faster than the weight, as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. 182. In the pulley, when the rope merely passes over a fixed pulley, (as in Fig. 45,) the power and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...cylinder, which is generally called the axle, and W the weight to be raised. The advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. That is, if the circumference of the wheel be six times the circumference of the axle, then a power... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...a wheel fastened to it, or of a cylinder, with projecting spokes. LXXV. 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. I Exam. 1. To this... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...by examining the accompanying figs. 44, and 45. Pig. 44. Fig. 45. LXXX. 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... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...it is further from the centre of motion ; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one; therefore...the weight of the bucket would be able to raise it. CAROLINE. In raising water, there is commonly, I believe, instead of a wheel attached to the axle,... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 496 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...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... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...more power than the same force applied to its axle, in proportion as the circumference or diameter of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the diameter of the wheel be ten times that of the axle, any force applied to the wheel will have the same... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 344 pages
...see that, in turning together, the wheel would take up, or throw ofF, as much more rope than the axle as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the proportions were as four to one, one pound, at J, hanging from the circumference of the wheel, would... | |
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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... 
