ody falls within orwithout the base. Let A GBD be the base of the body in contact with theplane, GE the vertical line drawnthrough the centre of gravity of thebody and meeting the base in somepoint E within it. Now the pressure which theweight of the body exercises on theplane is equal to a weight… … 96 OF THE CENTRE OP GRAVITY. But if E fair with out the base the plane cannot exert apressure which shall pass throughE and balance W: in this casethen the body will not be in equi-librium, but will begin to fall overby turning round some tangent lineto the perimeter of the base, and thiswill…
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