 | Sir Richard Phillips - Electricity - 1807 - 212 pages
...projecting spokes thai answer the same purpose as awheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis : or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the diameter... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Celestial mechanics - 1811 - 196 pages
...projecting spokes that answer the same purpose as a wheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the diameter... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1815 - 680 pages
...will be in equilibrio. Father. The second mechanical powei is the Wheel and Axis, which gains powei in proportion, as the circumference of the wheel is...axis ; this machine may be referred to the principle ol the lever. AB (Plate in. Fig. 22.) is th( wheel, Q. D its axis, and if the circumfer ence of the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...the ascent, the rope to coil more than once the length of the axis, because the advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; so that if the circumference of the wheel be 12 times greater than that of the axis, 1 pound applied... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...other, as their respective diameters ; consequently the advantage gained, by this mechanical power, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis, or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Hence the velocity of the... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...same space of time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...fa the Wheel and Jtxi«, which lraufi% fww*r <n prolxjruon as the circoioference »f tk: w fa'*li* greater than that of the axis; this machine may be referred to the principle of the lever, AB (Plate in. Fig. 23.) is the wheel, o. u its axis, and if the circumference of the wheel be eight times as... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 254 pages
...fastened to it, (Jig. 13,) orofacylinderwithprojectingspokes,^,/?^. 14.) 74. The advantage gained is in proportion as the ' circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illus. If thediametcrofthe... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...same space of time that the axle, describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power twelves times... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Science - 1827 - 234 pages
...same space of time that the axle describes a small one; therefore the power is 'increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. Those who have ever drawn a bucket from a well by this machine, must have observed, that as the... | |
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... proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the... 
