 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1848 - 648 pages
...S'°~Si=~dt»' These necessarily arise from the definitions of force and velocity. Definition. — The work done by a force is measured by the product of the mate moved into the accelerate force into the space divided by the time, or according to the usual... | |
 | Technology - 1848 - 652 pages
...~ dt S^dl^dt3' These necessarily arise from the definitions of force and velocity. Definition. — The work done by a force is measured by the product of the mass moved into the accelerate force into the space divided by the time, or according to the usual... | |
 | John Perry - Steam - 1874 - 438 pages
...if properly directed, it will do work. Pressure on a piston does work when the piston yields to it. The work done by a force is measured by the product of the force into the distance through which it acts. The unit of work commonly employed is the FIG. 4. work... | |
 | William Garnett - 1875 - 332 pages
...If a particle be in motion under the action of a force always in the direction of its motion, since the work done by a force is measured by the product of the force and the distance moved over by its point of application in the direction of the force, it follows... | |
 | Great Britain - 1878 - 890 pages
...in which the body is moved ; indeed we find that on page 49 it is correctly enough asserted that " the work done by a force is measured by the product of the force into the distance through which it acts." • On the Science of Weighing and Measuring and Standards... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Glazebrook - Physical optics - 1883 - 462 pages
...do work. If the force is balanced by a system of other forces there is no motion, and hence no work. The work done by a force is measured by the product of the force multiplied by the distance resolved in the direction in which the force is acting through which... | |
 | William Barnet Le Van - Indicators for steam-engines - 1889 - 524 pages
...that is to say, a force multiplied by the velocity with which it is acting is the power in operation. The work done by a force is measured by the product of the force into the distance through which it acts. The unit of work commonly employed is the work done... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Mechanics, Applied - 1894 - 350 pages
...when the weight has been raised through £, J, and f of the whole depth respectively. ANSWER. — (i) The work done by a force is measured by the product of the force into the distance through which that force moves in its own direction. If P be the force in pounds,... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Mechanical engineering - 1895 - 446 pages
...in problems to denote one and the same force, according to the way in which the problem is viewed. The work done by a force is measured by the product...DEFINITION. — The British Unit of Work, called the Foot-pound (ft.-lb.), is the work done when a force of one pound acts through a distance of one foot... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1895 - 668 pages
...are equivalent to one gram-centimeter, or g foot-poundals (32.2) are equivalent to one foot-pound. Work done by a force is measured by the product of the numeric of the force and that of the space s or [L] through which it acts. Then since force [/] = [MLT—... | |
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The work done by a force is measured by the product of the force into the distance through which that force moves in its own direction. 
