 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 518 pages
...can impart to a body in a certain time, as will be shown more fully hereafter. Centre of Gravity. 4O. The CENTRE OF GRAVITY of a body is. that point through which the direction of its weight always passes. We have seen that the weight of a body is the resultant of the... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...impart to a body in a certain time, as will be shown more fully hereafter. Centre of C4ravity. 40* The CENTRE OF GRAVITY of a body is that point through which the direction of its weight always passes, Wo have scon that the weight of a body is the resultant of the... | |
 | John Francis Twisden - Mechanics - 1874 - 264 pages
...is sometimes treated as a definition of the centre of gravity, and accordingly it is often said that the centre of gravity of a body is that point through which its weight always acts in whatever position it is placed. 21. Condition of the equilibrium of two forces.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1881 - 556 pages
...impart to a body in a certain time, as will be shown more fully hereafter. 60. Centre of Gravity.—The CENTRE OF GRAVITY of a body is that point through which the direction of its weight always passes. We have seen that the weight of a body is the resultant of the... | |
 | William James Browne - Mechanics - 1883 - 218 pages
...through the fluid with the disc at a constant depth, and that it increases as the depth increases. 261. Centre of Pressure — As the centre of gravity of...parallel forces exerted by gravity on the particles of the body always passes, so the centre of pressure of a surface immersed in a liquid is the point through... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - Mechanics, Analytic - 1887 - 406 pages
...Ibs. Hence we have for the weight of any body w •=• mg. . . (62) 48. The Centre of Gravity. — The Centre of Gravity of a body is that point through which the action-line of the body's weight always passes. Let m and w be the type-symbols for the masses and... | |
 | John Lovell Robinson - Dynamics - 1888 - 378 pages
...192 we can determine their Centre. The centre in this case is called the Centre of Gravity.1 DEF. — The Centre of Gravity of a body is that point through which the resultant of the weights of all its particles acts in whatever position the body is placed. From this it follows... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1888 - 560 pages
...impart to a body in a certain time, as will be shown more fully hereafter. 60. Centre of Gravity. — The CENTRE OF GRAVITY of a body is that point through which the direction of its weight always passes. We have seen that the weight of a body is the resultant of the... | |
 | Charles Vandeleur Burton - Dynamics - 1890 - 330 pages
...resultant of the weights of the separate particles of which we may conceive the body to be composed, and the centre of gravity of a body is that point through which its weight always acts. If the centre of gravity be fixed, so that the body is free to turn in any... | |
 | William Briggs, George Hartley Bryan - Statics - 1894 - 254 pages
...another in the co of the parallelogram, as may be otherwise proved by geometry. SUMMARY OF RESULTS. The centre of gravity of a body is that point through which the resultant force due to the Earth's attraction always passes. (§ 140.) The centre of gravity of (1) a straight... | |
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Centre of Gravity. — The CENTRE OF GRAVITY of a body is that point through which the direction of its weight always passes. 
