Analytical mechanics for students of physics and engineering (1913)
Dadourian, Haroutune Mugurditch. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 45
ecessary to rotate the former about its axis. . , 47. Moment of a Force. — The most common method ofgiving a rigid body a motion of rotation is to put an axlethrough it and to apply to it aforce which acts in a plane per-pendicular to the axle. Therotation is produced by thecouple formed by the… … Fig. 31. EQUILIBRIUM OF RIGID BODIES 39 venient to disregard the reaction of the axle. When thisis done the torque of the couple is called the moment of theforce applied. Therefore the moment of a force about anaxis equals the product of the force by its lever-arm. The lever-arm of a force is the…
Mechanics, Analytic
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