The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 45
llustration 2d. If the two forces acting ona body are unequal, but still operate at rightangles to each other, the body will movefrom C to A as represented in Fig. 9; inwhich it is to be observed that the force Y isas much greater than the force X, as thelength of the side A B of the rectangle A BC…
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