Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 829
n a plane, is in a state of stable equilibrium in one direction, and in that oJ indif-ferent equilibrium in another. Supported at the pole, the case becomes one of unstable equilibrium. The vertical line which passes through the centre of gravity is called the line of direction of thecentre of… … depends upon the horizontal distance of the line of direction from the edge of the base as comparedwith the height of the centre of gravity above the base, or upon the length of the are which the cen-tre of gravity will describe when the bodv is raised from a horizontal position of the base to that…
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