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" An equilibrium is produced in all the levers, when the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. That... "
Elements of Drawing and Mensuration Applied to the Mechanic Arts: A Book for ... - Page 225
by Charles Davies - 1846 - 240 pages
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The Weekly Visitor, Issue 1

Christian life - 1835 - 480 pages
...equilibrio, for by multiplying together the weight and its distance, it will be found that their product is equal to the product of the power multiplied by its distance. The immense value of the lever in appropriating power in the most advantageous manner will be immediately...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...equal to the product of W into BC, and in all cases where the product of the weight into its MACHINERY. distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the product of the power into its distance, the weight and the power will be in equilibrium. Fig. 25. 120. This is true even...
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First Lessons in Geometry: With Practical Applications in Mensuration, and ...

Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 262 pages
...placed in the second kind 1 Where is the power placed. in the third kind 1 Of the Mechanical Powers. 5. An equilibrium is produced in all the levers when...distance from the power to the fulcrum, to distance from theweiglit to the fulcrum. EXAMPLES. 1. In a lever of the first kind the fulcrum is placed at the middle...
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First Lessons in Geometry: With Practical Applications in Mensuration, and ...

Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 264 pages
...the fulcrum to the weight and power, are called the arms of the lever. Of the Mechanical Powers. 5. An equilibrium is produced in all the levers when...distance from the fulcrum. That is, The weight is to (he power, as the distance from the power to the fulcrum, to distance from the weight to the fulcrum....
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The British gunner

James Morton Spearman - Artillery - 1844 - 446 pages
...tLe fulcrum, is to the distance of the former from the same point, — or, the power multiplied into its distance from the fulcrum, is equal to the product of the resistance into its distance from the same point. And this rule holds good in respect to each of the...
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A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader ...

Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1846 - 454 pages
...into AC, is equal to the product of W into BC, and in all cases where the product of the weight into its distance from the fulcrum, is equal- to the product of the power into its distance, the weight and the power will be in equilibrium. Fig. 27. 120. This is true even...
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Ticknor's Mensuration, Or, Square and Triangle: Being a Practical and ...

Almon Ticknor - Measurement - 1849 - 156 pages
...the weight. The parts of the lever, from the fulcrum to the weight and power, are called the arms of the lever. An equilibrium is produced in all the levers...distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum ; that is, the weight is to the power, as the distance...
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Putnam's Arithmetic

Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 276 pages
...Hence, by the law above stated, The power and weight will be at rest when the product of- the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product of the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. NOTE 1. The pupil, before attempting to solve any...
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The Mechanic's Assistant: A Thorough Practical Treatise on Mensuration and ...

D. M. Knapen - Measurement - 1849 - 300 pages
...balance 10 pounds at W. When the power and the weight are in equilibrium, the product of the weight into its distance from the fulcrum is equal to the product of the power into its distance from the fulcrum ; and if several powers and weights are made to act upon the same...
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Key to the American Common School Arithmetic

Rufus Putnam (of Salem, Mass.) - Arithmetic - 1849 - 174 pages
...2000 X Ц * being the product of the weight multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, must also be the product of the power multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum. Dividing this product, therefore, by the length of the longer arm, will give the power . 2000 X Ц...
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