The naval architect's and shipbuilder's pocket-book of formulae, rules, and tables and marine engineer's and surveyor's handy book of reference (1884)
Mackrow, Clement · London, C. Lockwood and co. · leaf 470
length. Weighted Rope.To determine the position a weight will take when hun-g ona rope suspended from two points not in the same horizoivtalplane. Fig. 182, Let A and b be thetwo points of suspension ;make bC equal to thelength of the rope ; bisectAC in D : the point Ewhere the perpendicularDE cuts… … y= _^{l-d)-h yd 462 MECHANICAL POWERS. MECHANICAL POWERS. The power applied and the weight lifted are directly propor-tional to the distances moved through by each body in a giventime. w = weight to be raised. p = power applied. D = distance of power from fulcrum. d — distance of weight from…
