Machinists' and Draftsmen's Handbook: Containing Tables, Rules and Formulas, with Numerous Examples Explaining the Principles of Mathematics and Mechanics as Applied to the Mechanical Trades

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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1922 - Mechanical engineering - 487 pages
 

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Page 69 - A geometrical progression is a series of numbers, which increase or decrease by a common or constant ratio.
Page 200 - The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; as, 5033 402+302.
Page 195 - ... base is to the sum of the other two sides, as the difference of those sides is to the difference of the segments of the base.
Page 286 - Mass. The mass of a body is the quantity of matter which it contains.
Page 6 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 150 - The square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Page 203 - From three times the diameter of the sphere, take double the height of the segment ; then multiply the remainder by the square of the height, and the product by the decimal .5236...
Page 276 - Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it.
Page 297 - Table 26, and / = least moment of inertia of the cross-section — that is, the moment of inertia about an axis passing through the center of gravity of the cross-section and parallel to the longest side. In other words, if the...

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