 | Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - Mechanics - 1830 - 602 pages
...example of levers of the third kind is found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone...to the bone near the socket is the power; and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is opposed to its motion, is the weight. A slight... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 480 pages
...the socket of the bone * F means fulcrum, W the weight, and P the power. 132 133 is the fulcrum, the muscle attached to the bone near the socket is the power, and the limb is the weight. The condition of equilibrium in the straight lever is, that the power multiplied by... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...nearly all two-wheeled carriages are examples. The limbs of animals are levers of the third class ; the socket of the bone is the fulcrum ; a strong muscle...to the bone near the socket is the power, and the weight of the limb is the weight. The treddle of the turning-lathe, and tongs, are also levers of the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Science - 1846 - 614 pages
...example of levers of the third kind is found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone...to the bone near the socket is the power ; and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is opposed to its motion, is the weight. A slight... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...examples of levers of the third kind are found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone...to the bone near the socket is the power, and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is opposed to its motion, is the weight. A slight... | |
 | Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - Mechanics - 1852 - 408 pages
...example of levers of the third kind is found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone is the fulcrum ; a strong muscle attached to the hone near the socket is the power; and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is... | |
 | John Johnston - Physics - 1854 - 420 pages
...and the building against which" its foot is placed is the prop or fulcrum, and the man is the power. 'In the use of this lever, it will be observed, the...and the limb itself, with any body connected with i QUESTION 112. Whnt is the third kind of lever ! in the use of this kind of lever, which must be greatest,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Electricity - 1858 - 438 pages
...examples of levers of the third kind are found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone...to the bone near the socket is the power, and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is opposed to its motion, is the weight. A slight... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1860 - 466 pages
...Tho lin.bs cf animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of tho bone, a, Fig. 65, is the fulcrum ; a strong muscle attached to the bone near the socket, c, and extending to d, is the power ; and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Physics - 1866 - 428 pages
...examples of levers of the third kind are found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone...to the bone near the socket is the power, and the weight of the limb, together with whatever resistance is opposed to its motion, is the weight. A slight... | |
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The most striking example of levers of the third kind is found in the animal economy. The limbs of animals are generally levers of this description. The socket of the bone is the fulcrum ; a strong muscle attached to the bone near the socket is the power;... 
