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re of the beam under the increase of weight,and we shall find that the centre of the beam hasbeen lowered about twice as much by the doubleweight as by the single weight, orin fact the bending is nearlyproportional to the weightapplied. Experiment 10.—Let us nowtake the very same beam of wood,and… … Fig. 6. 20 SCIENCE PRIMERS. [properties i6. Strength of Materials.—Now if an archi-tect or an engineer were using great wooden beams inthe construction of a building, it would evidently bemost advantageous to strength were he to place themin such a way that their depth might be as great aspossible,…
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