| Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel were twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power...the weight of the bucket would be able to raise it. Instead of a wheel there is commonly attached to the axle only a crooked handle, which answers the... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel were twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times less than the weight of... | |
| Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of rtme that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel were twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times less than the weight of... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...that the power applied at the circumference of the wheel must move as much faster than the weight, as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. 182. In the pulley, when the rope merely passes over a fixed pulley, (as in Fig. 45,) the power and... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...of motion ; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same time that the axle describes a small one; therefore the power is increased in the same...as the circumference of the wheel is greater than the axle. If the velocity of the wheel be twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power of one... | |
| Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...a wheel fastened to it, or of a cylinder, with projecting spokes. LXXV. The advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis: or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. I Exam. 1. To this... | |
| Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...by examining the accompanying figs. 44, and 45. Pig. 44. Fig. 45. LXXX. The advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...; for the wheel describes a large circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one; therefore the power is increased in the same...than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel were twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times less than the weight of... | |
| Science - 1842 - 496 pages
...; for the wheel describes a great circle in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one ; therefore the power is increased in the same...circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. Those who have ever drawn a bucket from a well by this machine, must have observed, that as the bucket... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1842 - 278 pages
...great circle in the same time that the axle describes a small one ; therefore the power is increased iu the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than the axle. If the velocity of the wheel be twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power of one... | |
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