Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 695
flength; and this force will produce upon the point P the same effect as the two forces P A and P Bproduce acting together. This method of finding an equivalent, or the. resultant of two forces, is called the parallelogram offorces, and is thus concisely expressed:— If two forces be represented, in… … FORCE. 685 Any number of forces, acting at one point, can be compounded by the same rule. For instance, letthe body x, Fig. 1*752, be pressed at once by the three forces whose directions are expressed by thearrows ABC, and their magnitudes by the lengths xa, xb,xc. We may first compound any two…
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