Analytical mechanics for students of physics and engineering (1913)
Dadourian, Haroutune Mugurditch, 1878- · New York, D. Van Nostrand Company · leaf 67
rts, one of which gives the moments about thex-axis and the other about the //-axi-. Thus, Rx = F1Xi + Fixi+ ■ ■ ■ +/ Ry = /V/i + /«\!h + • • ■ +/■„//., S where x and y are the coordinates of the poinl in the xy~ plane through which the resultant force passes. In other XII 50 ANALYTICAL MECHANICS… … ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE. Find the resultant of two parallel forces which act upon a rigid bodyin the same direction. Let the ?/-axis be parallel to theforces.Then R = Fx + F2, a ~ F,.r, + F2x2 and X = Fl + F2 F2 x — xi But since x2 — x and x — Xi are thedistances of F2 and Fi from R, we have F\ = d_2…
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