 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1829 - 482 pages
...resistance; and, according to the laws of meebauics, there will be an equilibrium, when the weight of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the weight or resistance multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. Now, suppose the weight of the brass... | |
 | James Hann, Isaac Dodds - Mechanics - 1833 - 234 pages
...the same as was found in Exam. ple2d. 50. Let AWC be a lever of the second order, and C its fulcrum ; the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, together with the whole weight of the lever multiplied... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 264 pages
...the lever. Of the Mechanical Powers. 5. An equilibrium is produced in all the levers when the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the product of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. That is, The weight is to (he power, as the distance... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 pages
...for ascertaining the relation of POWER to WEIGHT in a lever, whether it be straight or curved, is, the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. Let P be called the power, W the weight, p the... | |
 | James Morton Spearman - Artillery - 1844 - 446 pages
...tLe fulcrum, is to the distance of the former from the same point, — or, the power multiplied into its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the product of the resistance into its distance from the same point. And this rule holds good in respect to each of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1846 - 254 pages
...an equilibrium produced in the lever? An equilibrium is produced in all the levers when the weight, multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the product of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. That is, The weight is to the power, as the distance... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1846 - 454 pages
...into AC, is equal to the product of W into BC, and in all cases where the product of the weight into its distance from the fulcrum, is equal- to the product of the power into its distance, the weight and the power will be in equilibrium. Fig. 27. 120. This is true... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1847 - 190 pages
...magnitudes of the opposing force, and their distances from the fulcrum, namely, that, in every case, the power, multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the weight, multiplied by its distance from the same point Prom this, simple rules may be deduced for calculationTo... | |
 | James Hann - Mechanics - 1848 - 352 pages
...the same as was found in Example 2d. 29. Let A WO be a lever of the second order, and C its fulcrum ; the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, together with the whole weight of the lever multiplied... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 276 pages
...fulcrum. Hence, by the law above stated, The power and weight will be at rest when the product of- the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product of the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. NOTE 1. The pupil, before attempting to solve any... | |
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An equilibrium is produced in all the levers, when the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. 
