| Charles Henry Wilkinson - Astronomy - 1799 - 390 pages
...this principle depends the weighing machines. . Second Mechanical Power, the WHEEL and AXLE. In this the power is to the weight, as the diameter of the Axle is to the diameter of the Wheel. If there are feveral Wheels fo conftructed that the circumference of one acts upon the Axis of the other,... | |
| Tiberius Cavallo - Physics - 1803 - 546 pages
...hence hence the equilibrium in this mechanifm takes place when the weight of E is to the weight of C, as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel. Inftead of the power E, the wheel may be furnifhed with little handles or fpokes, as reprefented in... | |
| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1807 - 248 pages
...the man. Therefore, feet. Feet. Ib. Ib. Ла 1,5 : 10,5 : : 150 : 1050 Am. 2. Of the Wheel and Axle. As the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel : so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended by the axle, EXAMPLES. 1. A MECHANIC... | |
| Nicolas Pike - Algebra - 1808 - 470 pages
...wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, which coils about the axle as the wheel turns round) is, as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended by the axle. A. mechanick would make... | |
| John Preston - Arithmetic - 1817 - 538 pages
...in raising a greater weight suspended •' from, the Axle than that applied to the wheel. RULES. 1. As the diameter of the axle, is to the diameter of the wheel; So is the power applied to the rim of the wheel } to the weight raised by the axle. 2. As the lesser... | |
| Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...these cases, bear, more than his harness ? C l!6flu. in the first in the second. 2 ©f tlie RULE. — As the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel to the weight suspended. on the axle. 1. I' tie diameter of the... | |
| Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 214 pages
...wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, which coils about the axle as the wheel turns round) is, as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended by the axle. 315. What is a general principle... | |
| Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 222 pages
...wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, which coils about the axle as the wheel turns round) is as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended by the axle. 315. What is a general principle... | |
| William Slocomb - 1828 - 160 pages
...weight suspended to the axle; or what iceight at the axle will be raised by a given power at the wheel, As the diameter of the axle, is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended to the axle. • % 1. Suppose you wish... | |
| Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1828 - 238 pages
...harness ? C 116f Ih. in the first. i 77$ Ih. inthesecoml. 28 <9f tfve SZFJieel anti 837. RULE.—As the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel to the weight suspended on the axle. 1. If the diameter of the... | |
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