The science of mechanics; a critical and historical account of its development (1902)
Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916, McCormick, Thomas Joseph, 1865- tr · Chicago, The Open court publishing company; · leaf 46
it is shown that onesimple case contains all others, in so far as the samemode of conception is established for all cases. Im-agine (Fig. 12) a homogeneous prism, whose axis isAB, supported at its centre C. To give a graphicalrepresentation of the sum of the products of the weightsand distances,… … Fig. 12. of C (as positive) being drawn upwards, and to the left illustrationof C (as negative) downwards. The sum of the areasof the two triangles, A CD + CBE = 0, illustrates herethe subsistence of equilibrium. If we divide the prisminto two parts at M, we may substitute the rectangleMUWB for…
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