Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 88
e required to overturn it. If its position canbe disturbed or deranged without raising its centre of gravity,the slightest force will be sufficient to move it; but if its positioncannot be changed without causing its centre of gravity to riseto a higher position, then a force will be required which… … Fig. 23. Fig. 24. Fig. 25. necessary in either case to move the centre of gravity, G, overthe arc G E, and hence to raise it through the height HE.This distance is greater, and hence the force required to over-turn the cylinder is greater, the larger the base of the cylinderrelatively to its…
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