Bartlett, W. H. C. (William Holms Chambers), 1804-1893 · New York : Barnes · leaf 310
he body. Thus aninclined prism, the directionOg of whose weight fallswithout the base A B, would,if abandoned to itself, over-tarn ; whereas, if it were act-ed upon by a force in the di-rection GE, of such intensityas to give, with the weight,a resultant which intersects will overturnwhen weight… … these may act toincrease thestability; 306 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. equilibriumstable; the base at 0, it would besupported, and the equilib-rium would be stable. Ee-ciprocally, the weight W ofthe prism is opposed to theforce GE=F, when the latteracts to turn the solid aboutthe edge A. The measure ofthis…
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