 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Waterhouse - Arithmetic - 1842 - 180 pages
...than that which is to raise it. THE WHEEL AND 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. 2. PRINCIPLE. The power must be to the weight as the radius... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles WATERHOUSE - Arithmetic - 1844 - 228 pages
...of both of the slanting sides. The WHEEL and AXLE is a wheel taming 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. Principle 5.— The power must be to the weight as the radius... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...acts. The wheel and axle consists of a wheel having a cylindrical axis passing through its centre. The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight is attached to the circumference of the axle. In the wheel and axle, an equilibrium takes place when the... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Physics - 1848 - 330 pages
...THE WEDGE. THE SCREW*. 262. The wheel and 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 Fig. 85. means of cords. Let AB represent an axle, turning upon pivots at its... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 402 pages
...cylinder, C, revolving upon an axis, and having a wheel, AB, of larger diameter, immovably affixed to it. The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to that of the axle. The radius of the wheel is to be regarded as the longer arm of a lever, and that... | |
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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... 
