Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 89
hrough 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 height. It can also easily be seen that the sta-bility is greatest when the vertical, passing through the centre ofgravity, passes… … Fig. 27. the centre will be unsupported, and the cylinder will fall. Theseprinciples, which have been illustrated by a cylinder, may bereadily extended to other bodies. When a body rests on two or more points, it is not necessaryfor its stability that its centre of gravity should be directlyover…
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