Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 719
ollows jthat the body will move or not according jas Q M is greater or less than Q M, that Iis, as P P is greater or less than P P, |or as the angle P11A is greater or less jthan the angle B M A. These conditions a;v shown in the diagrams: ii. the first.here would be motion induced by the… … Its tangent is the fraction MQ pTjT — p, ,,, which is the coefficient of friction. The angle is manifestly FRICTION. 717 the same for surfaces of the same nature, whatever be the actual amount of the impressed force P; butis different for different surfaces. From this then it appears that the force…
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