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 81
and centres ofFigures. Thd geometrical moment of a fgure, whether a line, am, area, ora solid, relatively to a given jilane or axis is the product of tliemagnitude of that figure, into the perpendicular distance of itscentre from the given plane or axis, and is equal to the sum ofthe moments of all… … MOME^TS AXD CENTRES OF FIGURES. 73 ■^hen its distance from tliree planes not parallel to one anotheris known. 1. To find the moment of an iiiegular figure relatively to afjiven plane m axi». Rule.—Divide the figure into parts whose centres are known;multiply the magnitude of each of its parts into…
