 | Robert Walker - Mechanics - 1830 - 244 pages
...Therefore the resultant of AB and AC is A D. Hence the resultant of any two forces acting on a point is represented, both in magnitude and direction, by the diagonal of the parallelogram whose sides represent the forces. FINIS. TALBoYs AND BROWN K, PR1KTLRS, OXFORD. ERRATA. Page 12, line... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...and represented by lines taken in their direction, and both, departing from the point of application, is represented, both in magnitude and direction, by the diagonal of the parallelogram constructed on those forces. 26. Remark. The preceding proposition, which is generally spoken of under... | |
 | John Robert Lunn - Acceleration (Mechanics) - 1859 - 168 pages
...accelerations by which the motion of a point is simultaneously affected, the resulting acceleration will be represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through the point of intersection of those sides." Let AB, AC represent the two accelerations.... | |
 | John Bourne (C.E.) - Steam engineering - 1885 - 646 pages
...be constructed by the addition of equal and opposite lines, the resulting force or pressure will be represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram. Thus, let H and K be two pulleys, and QP weighted strings passing over the pulleys and fastened at... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Dynamics - 1891 - 318 pages
...magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through that angular point. In the following article we shall give an experimental proof ;... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Herbert - Telegraph - 1906 - 944 pages
...magnitude and direction by the two aides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing that angular point.0 Example. — A line of 40 ft. poles carries twelve 400 Ib. iron and sixteen... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Mechanics - 1907 - 332 pages
...magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through that angular point. In the following article we shall give an experimental proof. In... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Mechanics - 1912 - 418 pages
...magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through that angular point. .*"••• '.-'•.. > ^ This fundamental theorem of Statics,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Herbert - Postal service - 1916 - 1042 pages
...magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing that angular point* Example. — A line of 40 ft. poles carries twelve 400 Ib. iron and sixteen... | |
 | Harry Edwin Hadley - Physics - 1926 - 546 pages
...velocities make an angle with each other, and they are drawn to scale, the resultant ve1ocity is represented in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram, two adjacent sides of which represent the two component velocities. Parallelogram of forces. — In the same manner as two velocities,... | |
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Theorem. Parallelogram of Forces. If two forces, acting at a point, be represented in magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from one of its angular points, their resultant is represented both in magnitude and direction by the... 
