The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 152
is therefore far preferable. This and the preceding examples exemplify, in a measure, theresolution of forces ; viz., the finding of two or more forces, which,acting in different directions, shall exactly balance the pressureof any given sijigle force. Thus, in Fig. 185, supposing theweight, Wj to… … C Fig. 189 252.—The composition of forces consists in ascertaining thedirection and amount of one force, which shall be just capable ofbalancing two or inore given forces, acting in different directions.This is only the reverse of the resolution of forces, and the twoare founded on one and the same…
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