 | John Boucher (of the 5th Dragoon guards.) - 1860 - 524 pages
...centre is in their middle part. In irregular-shaped bodies it is that point about which all the parts exactly balance each other, in every position of the...therefore, that point is supported, the body will not fall. An elongated bullet is an irregular-shaped body, and will range further and more steadily, if the centre... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1870 - 398 pages
...bodies to fall towards the center of the earth. «5O§. The center of gravity of a body is " the pomt about which all the parts of a body exactly balance each other, so that when that point is supported, the whole body is supported/' In a body of uniform density the... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1877 - 364 pages
...coincide, or fall in the same spot." " I now remember," cried Tom, " that the centre of gravity i94 is that point about which all the parts of a body exactly balance each other.'' " Now you are right : it is, in other words, that point in which the whole weight of a body appears,... | |
 | Thomas Herbert Russell, Charles P. Root - Automobiles - 1909 - 420 pages
...of a body and the weight of an equal volume of the recognized standard. Gravity, Center of — The point about which all the parts of a body exactly balance each other, so that when that point is supported the whole body is supported. Gravity, Specific of Gasolene —... | |
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... called in geometry a parabola. But when the ball is thrown perpendicularly upwards, it will descend perpendicularly; because the force of projection, and that of gravity, are in the same line of direction. We have noticed the centres of magnitude... 
