 | 1840 - 772 pages
...gravity in a straight line. Prop. 21. To find the centre of gravity of a triangle. Prop. 22. When a hody is placed on a horizontal plane, it will stand or...fall, according as the vertical line drawn from its centre of gravity, falls within or without its hase. Prop. 23. When a hody is suspended from a point,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 226 pages
...round one edge of its base, whether the base slide or not. * PROP. XXXI. When a body is placed upon a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall, according...center of gravity, falls within or without its base. * Let ABCD be the body, AB its base, G its center of gravity. First let GF, the vertical line drawn... | |
 | Education - 1844 - 688 pages
...: W' '. Wa Telocity : P's Telocity. 6. Define " centre of graTity," and find that of a triangle. 7. When a body is placed on a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall, according as the Tertical line, drawn from its centre of graTity, falls within or without its base. 8. The pressure... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1847 - 40 pages
...velocity = Wx W's velocity. 7. Define the centre of gravity ; and shew that when a body is placed upon a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall, according as the vertical line, drawn from its centre of gravity, falls within or without the base. 8. The pressure upon any particle of a fluid of... | |
 | Andrew Searle Hart - Mechanics - 1847 - 156 pages
...through the centre of gravity, therefore their intersection is the point required. Cor. 3. If a body be placed on a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall according as the vertical which passes through its centre of gravity meets the horizontal plane within or without the figure... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1849 - 560 pages
...find the centre of gravity of a straight line. Prop. 21. To find the centre of gravity of a triangle. Prop. 22. When a body is placed on a horizontal plane,...fall, according as the vertical line, drawn from its centre of gravity, falls within or without its base. Prop. 23. When a body is suspended from a point,... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin - Mathematics - 1849 - 588 pages
...following is one of the most important properties of the centre of gravity. 49. When a body is placed upon a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall according as the vertical line through the centre of gravity falls within or without the base. FIG. I. FIG. JI. Suppose the vertical... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (Bishop of Carlisle.) - 1851 - 414 pages
...the property which is most important in a practical point of view. PROP. When a body is placed upon a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall according as the vertical line through the centre of gravity falls within or without the base. Suppose the vertical line GC through... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 200 pages
...a base and joining its extremities with the other angular points; find their centre of gravity. 11. When a body is placed on a horizontal plane, it will...fall, according as the vertical line drawn from its centre of gravity, falls within or without its base. A square stands on a horizontal plane; if equal... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...point of which the density varies as its distance frvm a certain fixed diameter. 11. If a body rest on a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall according as the vertical line drawn from its centre of gravity falls within or without the base. HORACE.— EPISTLES. BOOK. II. DIVISION I. —... | |
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When a body is placed on a horizontal plane, it will stand or fall, according as the vertical line, drawn from its centre of gravity, falls within or without its base. Prop. 23. When a body is suspended from a point, it will rest with its centre of gravity... 
