Analytical mechanics for students of physics and engineering (1913)
Dadourian, Haroutune Mugurditch. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 54
16. Supposing the weights of the following figures to be in equilibriumfind their relative magnitudes. The circles which are tangent to othercircles represent gears. … 54. Resultant of a System of Forces Acting upon a Rigid Body.—We have already shown that the most general displacementof a rigid body consists of a translation along, and a rotationabout, a certain line. Therefore such a displacement can beprevented by a single force opposed to the translation anda…
Mechanics, Analytic
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