 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...which tubes (scarcely capable of admitting a hair) have, of causing water to stand above its level. 6. The centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all the parts of a body, in any situation, balance each other.' Hence, if a body is suspended or supported... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...which tubes (scarcely capable of admitting a hair) have, of causing water to stand above iU level. ft. The centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all the parts of a body, in any situation, balance • each other. Hence, if a body is suspended or supported... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...occasioned by them as arising from various modifications of motion only. CENTRE OF GRAVITY. t • ... • The centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts exactly balance each other. Hence if a body be suspended or supported by this point, it will rest in... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 236 pages
...the radii directly, and thf squares of the periodical times inversely. OF THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY. 49. The centre of gravity of a body, is that point, about which all its parts do in any situation exactly balance each other, so that if a body be suspended or supported by the... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...Perpendic'ularly, in the direction of a straight line up and down. Pyr'amid, a pillar ending in a point. THE centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts, in any situation exactly balance each other, so that if a body be suspended or supported by this point,... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1828 - 368 pages
...Perpendic'ularly, in the direction of a straight line up and down. Pyr'amid, a pillar ending in a point. 'Tan centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts, in any situation exactly balance each other, so that if a body be suspended or supported by this point,... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...Perpendic'ularly , in the direction of a straight line up and down. Pyr'amid, a pillar ending in a point. THE centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts, in any situation exactly balance each other, BO that if a body be suspended or supported by this point,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1832 - 286 pages
...denominated central forces ; and when a body revolves in a circular .orbit, those two forces are equal. 55. The centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts do in any situation exactly balance each other. Observation 1. The centre of gravity of a circle, sphere,... | |
 | Samuel YOUNG (of Manchester.) - 1833 - 272 pages
...required the quantity of each ingredient, the specific gravity of tin being 7320, and of copper 9000. CENTRE OF GRAVITY. THE centre of gravity of a body is that point which, if sustained, the body remains at rest ; the particles of which it is composed being equipoised.... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 308 pages
...the size of the globules of the mud, which are in this case the moving body. CENTRE OF GRAVITY. LV. THE Centre of Gravity of a body, is that point, about which all its parts do in any situation exactly balance each other, so that if a body be suspended or supported by the... | |
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I shall just offer a few illustrations of the CENTRE OF GRAVITY. The centre of gravity of a body is that point about which all its parts... 
