 | Sir Richard Phillips - Electricity - 1807 - 212 pages
...other,. and the power applied hetween them. Here the power must exceed the weight, in thesame proportion as the distance of the weight from the prop, exceeds the distance of the power. . Illustration. Let F fig. 11, be the prop or fulcrum, P Ihe power and W the weight; if the distance... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. Thus, let E, tig. 4, be the prop of the lever EF, and W, a weight of one pound, placed three times... | |
 | William Duane - Electronic books - 1810 - 774 pages
...*£/с, a brass instrument nieisurc angles, either saliant or renit, lor exactly ascertaining the jtumr . of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power from the prop. As this kind oi lever is disadvantageous to the moving power, it is seldom used. Wheel and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Celestial mechanics - 1811 - 196 pages
...other, and the power applied between them. Here the power must exceed the weight, in the same proportion as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. Illustration. Let F, fig. 11, be the prop or fulcrum, P the power, and W the weight ; if the distance... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight, just as many times as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power from it. Thus, let E be the prop of the lever JIB, and W a weight of i pound, placed times as far from the prop,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. Thus, let E, fig 4, be the prop of the le\er EF. and \V a weight of one pound, placed three times as... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...the power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. A ladder, raised by the strength of a man's arms, repreThe wheels in a clock, and in watch-work, are... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. Thus, let E (fig. 9.) be the prop of the lever EF, and W a weight of one pound, placed three times... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...than it. Father. And what is the consequence of that ? Charles. That the power must be greater than the weight and as much greater as the distance of...pounds at A, there will require the exertion of a power r, acting at B, equal t<i live pounds. Father. Since then a lever of this kind is a disadvantage to... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 254 pages
...other, and the power applied between them. Here the power must exceed the weight in the same proportion, as the distance of the weight from the prop, exceeds the distance of the power. niiu.1. Let/fig.lO,be the prop or fulcrum, p the power, and w the weight; if the distance pf be only... | |
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... that there may be a balance between the power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power. 
