Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 128
ethe force required to turnthe beam will be the least:In Fig. 43, suppose the lineffl Z> to be the axis of thebeam, O the fulcrum, andg- OT G the centre of grav-ity. We have now to in-quire in what position ofthe centre of gravity it willrequire the least force to bring the beam to a new… … Fig. 43. 104 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. weight of the beam and pans, which we suppose concentrated atg, through the perpendicular distance g e; and in the secondcase, to raise the same weight through the distance G E. Sincethe distance g- e is much less than the distance G E, it is evi-dent that it will…
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