 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 556 pages
...hammer drawing a nail is a lever of this sort. 2. The second mechanical power is the wheel and axle, m which the power is applied to the circumference of...wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope which coils t the axle as the wheel is turned round. Here it is that the velocity of the power must be to the ve,... | |
 | Jason M. Mahan - Arithmetic - 1839 - 312 pages
...crank. Then, As 5 ft. : 8 ft. : : 16 in. : 25.6 in. Ans. OF THE WHEEL AND AXLE. When the weight is to be raised by a rope, which coils about the axle as the wheel turns around, and the power applied to the circumference of the wheel — say, As the diameter of the axle,... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 380 pages
...AXLE. 32. The wheel and axle consists of a wheel having a cylinder or axle passing through its centre. The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to the circumference of this cylinder, or of the axle ; and, when there is equilibrium, the power is... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...57 min.46|sec. WHEEL AND AXLE. The wheel or axle, is a wheel turning round together with its axis ; the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to that of the axis by means of cords. An equilibrium is produced in the wheel and axis, when the wheel... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 490 pages
...hunilspike. Ч lie wheel and axle consists of a wheel having a cylindric axis passing through its centre. The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to the circumference of the axle. In the wheel and axle, an equilibrium takes place when the power... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...it? Ans. 1 foot. THE AXLE OR WHEEL. The wheel or axle is a wheel turning round together with its axis the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to that of the axis, by means of cords, an equilibrium is produced in the wheel and axis, when the... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...&c.* Of the wheel and axle, we have examples, in the windlass used for raising heavy weights, where the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight, or resist* Levers are of three kinds. Fig. 18, ia a lever of the first kind, resting on the fulcrum,... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...it? Ans. 1 foot. THE AXLE OR WHEEL. The wheel or axle is a wheel turning round together with its axis the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to that of the axis, by means of cords, an equilibrium is produced in the wheel and axis, when the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...57 min.46|sec. WHEEL AND AXLE. The wlteel or axle, is a wheel turning round together with its axis ; the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to that of the axis by means of cords. An equilibrium is produced in the wheel and axis, when the wheel... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1842 - 320 pages
...handspike. % The wheel and axle consists of a wheel having a cylindric axis passing through its centre. The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to the circumference of the axle. In the wheel and axle, an equilibrium takes place when the power... | |
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The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to the circumference of the axle. 
