 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...other, and if they be then put in motion, the power and weight will be to each other reciprocally FLS the velocities of their motion, or the power is to the weight as the velocity of ihe weight is to the velocity of the power ; so that their two momenta are equal, viz, the product... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...turn round in a fixed frame or block, there is a block of pullies moving equally fast with the weight, the velocity of the weight is to the velocity of the power, as one, to twice the number of pullies in the lower or moveable block ; and the power and weight balance... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...height casts its sfeade. Ans. 270 feet. OF THE LEVER OR STEELYARD. It is a principle in Mechanicks, that the power is to the weight, as the velocity of the weight, to the velocity of the power ; therefore to find what weight may be raised or balanced by any given... | |
 | Science - 1821 - 452 pages
...57. Schol. 1. "In all compound machines there will be an equilibrium, when the sum of the powers are to the weight, as the velocity of the weight is to the sum of the velocities of the powers." No interpretation can be put upon this statement which will render... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...described by the pulley, or load Mechanics to be overcome, would have been 30 inches. Now, as ^•~~v~' the power is to the weight as the velocity of the weight is to the velocity of the power, and as the velocity of the power is the same in both capstanes, the weights which they will raise will... | |
 | Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 214 pages
...are the differ, MECHANICAL POWERS. OF THE LEVER OR STEELYARD. It is a principle in mechanicks, that the power is to the weight, as the velocity of the weight, is to the velocity of the power. Therefore, to find what weight may be raised or balanced by any given power, say ; As the distance... | |
 | Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 222 pages
...Squared! IQG2.76 MECHANICAL POWERS. OF THE LEVER OR STEELYARD. It is a principle in mechanics, that the power is to the weight, as the velocity of the weight, is to the velocity of the power. Therefore, to find what weight may be raised or balanced by any given poicer, say ; As the distance... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1828 - 238 pages
...ascent, and 4—.2=3.8 seconds, stone's descent. 12 ©f tfie 335. It is a principle in mechanics that the power is to the weight as the velocity of the weight is lo ttie velocity of the power. 336. To find what weight may he halanced hy a given power. RULE.—As... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1829 - 196 pages
...signify the body TO BE MOVED, and the body that MOVES IT. 33Q* It is a PRINCIPLE in mechanics, that the POWER is to the WEIGHT, as the VELOCITY OF THE WEIGHT to the VELOCITY ep THE POWER. THE LEVER OR STEELYARD. 3 3 T * The distance between the body to be raised... | |
 | Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1830 - 240 pages
...• Of THE LEVER OR STKRMfARD. It is a principle in mechanics, that the power it. to tb« weight, is the velocity of the weight, is to the velocity of the power. Therefore, to find itikat weight may be rdistd or balanced by any given power, suy; As (he distance... | |
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As the distance between the body to be raised, or balanced, and the fulcrum, or prop, is to the distance between the prop and the point where the power is applied, so is the power to the weight which it will balance. 
