Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 270
rdrawn through the point P in the previous position, namely, O q,at a point q, and this point is the metacentre. In the case beforeus, the metacentre is above the centre of gravity ; and it is evi-dent from the figures, that the couple formed by the resultantsof the forces of gravity and of the…
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