A treatise on mechanics, applied to the arts; including statics and hydrostatics / By the Rev. H. Moseley ... Published under the direction of the committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

  • Moseley, Henry, 1801-1872.
Date:
1847
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Credit: A treatise on mechanics, applied to the arts; including statics and hydrostatics / By the Rev. H. Moseley ... Published under the direction of the committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS Preface Introduction PAGE 9 . II STATICS. ART. 1 Definition of Force . . . . . . . . .27 2 Its Direction .......... 27 3 Its effect the same wherever applied in the Line of its Direction . 27 4 The Equilibrium of Forces . . . . . . . 27 5 The Equality of Forces . • . . . . . . . 27 8, 9 The Unit of Force ......... 28 10 The Measure of Force . . . . . . . .28 Representation of Forces, in quantity and direction, by Lines . 28 The Parallelogram of Forces ....... 30 Resultant and Component Forces ...... 32 The Resolution and Composition of Forces ... . . 32 21, 22 The Equilibrium of Three Forces acting upon a Solid Mass . 33 23 Illustrations of the Parallelogram of Forces . . . . . 34 The Equilibrium of any number of Forces applied to a Point . 40 The Polygon of Forces . . . . . . . .41 Illustration of the Polygon of Forces . . . . . . 41 On the Equilibrium of a number of Forces applied to different Points in a Body, but acting all in the same Plane . .42' The Equality of Moments ........ 44 The Equality of Areas ........ 46 The Equilibrium of Parallel Forces . . . . . . 48: If these preserve always their Parallelism in all positions of the body to which they are applied, their Resultant passes always through the same point in it . . . . . .48 The Centre of Gravity . . . . . . . .48 Experimental Method of determining it . . . .50 55,57 Illustrations of the Centre of Gravity . . . . .51 70 Resistance of a Surface not exclusively in a Direction perpendi¬ cular to that Surface.—Friction.—Limiting Angle of Resist¬ ance.—Illustrations ........ 59 78 Table of Coefficients of Friction ....... 63 a 2 14 17 19 20 32 33 34 35 36 44 47 49 51 54