Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 376
t it is kept in this originalposition: for if we conceive tlie top divided into two equalparts A and b, by a plane passing through the line x o, andsuppose that at any moment during its spinning the connec-tion between these two parts were suddenly dissolved, thenwould any point in the part a fly… … 96 PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT during the spinning of the top, tliese two eqnal and oppositeforces A and b will balance each other, and the top will con-tinue to spin on its original axis. Having tluis shown thatthe rotatory or centrifugal force can never make the top risefiom an oblique to a vertical…
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