 | Samuel Read Hall - Arithmetic - 1832 - 294 pages
...foot from the weight ? As 1 : 7 : : 120 : 840, Ans. The Axle. The proportion for the wheel and axle, (in which the power is applied to the circumference...of the wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, coiled around the axle, as the wheel turns,) is, as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Arithmetic - 1832 - 540 pages
...and 9 feet= 108 inches T „ In. ft OF THE WHEEL ANp AXLE. 91. The proportion for the wheel and axle (in which the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weigl't is raised by a rope, which coils about the axle as the wheel turns round) is, as the diameter... | |
 | James Hann, Isaac Dodds - Mechanics - 1833 - 234 pages
...wheel and axle consists of a wheel having a cylindric axis passing through its centre. (See Fig, 25.) '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 iakes place when the power... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 384 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 pl.ice when the power... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 380 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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THE WHEEL AND AXLE. 91. The proportion for the wheel and axle (in which the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, which coils... 
