Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 68
resistance tothe motion in that direction. (36.) Composition of several Forces acting in different Di-rections. — The course of reasoning used above, in regard tothe composition of two forces, applies equally to the composi-tion of any number of forces acting on the same point. Hence,the resultant… … represented both in direction and amount by tlie lines O A, OB,O C, and O D. We can find their resultant in the followingmanner. We first seek the resultant, O r, of O A and O B.The force represented by this linebeing in all respects equivalent toits two components, we can com-bine it with O C and…
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