 | Charles E. Larard, Henry A. Golding - Engineering - 1909 - 508 pages
...with respect to a given point is measured by the product of the intensity of the force multiplied by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. Take, for example, the simple lever-weighted safety valve, as shown diagrammatically in fig.... | |
 | John Ernest Jagger - Mechanical drawing - 1910 - 280 pages
...the tendency of the force to produce rotation about a point, measured by the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. If a body is in equilibrium, the moments tending to turn it in one direction are balanced by... | |
 | John Ernest Jagger - Mechanical drawing - 1910 - 278 pages
...the tendency of the force to produce rotation about a point, measured by the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. If a body is in equilibrium, the moments tending to turn it in one direction are balanced by... | |
 | William Henry Warren - Bridges - 1910 - 528 pages
...opposite. The moment of a force about a given point may be defined as the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. The second principle may then be stated thus : If any number of forces in the same plane act... | |
 | Harry Eaton Smith - Mechanics - 1913 - 296 pages
...About a Point. — The moment of a force about a point is the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. This moment is a measure of the effort a force would make to rotate a body, fixed at the given... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1913 - 456 pages
...moment of a force about a point is the product obtained by multiplying the magnitude of the force by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. In Fig. 3, the moment of F about the point C is Fp; and about the point Ci it is Fpi. The point... | |
 | John Edward Kirkham - Structural analysis (Engineering) - 1914 - 696 pages
...tendency to produce rotation of the body upon which it acts about the point chosen and is equal to the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force multiplied by the intensity of the force. The point is known as the center of moment, while the... | |
 | Ewart Sigmund Andrews - Mechanical engineering - 1915 - 340 pages
...the tendency of the force to rotate the body, upon which it acts, about the point." It is measured by the product of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. Referring to Fig. 11, the moment of the force Fi about 0 is equal to F1 xp:. If therefore F1... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1916 - 1230 pages
...moment of a force about a point is the product obtained by multiplying the magnitude of the force by the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. In the accompanying figure, the moment of F about the point C is Fp\ and about the point Ci... | |
 | Lionel Simeon Marks - Mechanical engineering - 1916 - 1922 pages
...to displace force F. The Moment of a Torce with Eeipect to a Point is the product of the force F and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. The Moment of a Force with Respect to a Straight Line. If the force is resolved into component«... | |
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The moment of a force about any point is the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force. 
