 | Charles Robert Cross - Mechanics - 1873 - 104 pages
...tendency of a force to rotate a body about a fixed point is measured by the product of its intensity into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. This product is called the moment of the force. Thus the moment of the force F, Fig. 40, relatively... | |
 | Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1886 - 640 pages
...taken. The moment of a force about any given point may be defined as the product of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force; or, in other words, the moment of a force is the product of the force by the arm with ucliicli... | |
 | Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1892 - 1032 pages
...taken. The moment of a force about any given point may be defined as the product of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force; or, in other words, the moment of a force is the product of the force by the arm with which... | |
 | William Henry Warren - Bridges - 1894 - 454 pages
...opposite. The moment of a force about a given point may be defined as the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. The second principle may then be stated thus : If any number of forces in the same plane act... | |
 | Julius Hortvet - Physics - 1899 - 280 pages
...force in producing rotation about a given point is measured by the magnitude of the force multiplied by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. This product of a force into the distance of its line of action from a point is called the moment... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1899 - 722 pages
...rotation. _1 1 1 23. The moment of a force about a point is the product of the magnitude of the force by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. (See Art. 9O6.) £ — > — . — ,Thus, in Fig. 225, the moment of the force F about the point... | |
 | John Oren Reed - Physics - 1902 - 336 pages
...of a force is the product of the force times the lever arm, or it is the product of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. Thus ,! in Fig. 14, the moment of the force about the point O, is PF X OP. Moments are termed positive or negative... | |
 | Machine design - 1902 - 524 pages
...it was stated that the moment of a force about a point is the product of the magnitude of the force by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. A force can act in two ways upon a body : it can either produce a motion of translation —... | |
 | Graphic statics - 1902 - 544 pages
...rotation. 1 1 23. The moment of a force about a point is the product of the magnitude of the force by the. perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. (See Art. 9O6.) ^ — > — . — ,Thus, in Fig. 225, the moment of the ; force F about the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1902 - 666 pages
...Mechanics. The moment of a force about any point is the product of the magnitude of t lie force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. The tendency of a force to rotate a body about a point is measured by the moment of the force... | |
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The moment of a force about any point is the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. 
