A course of experiments in physical measurement (1897)
Whiting, Harold, d. 1895 · Boston, D.C. Heath and Co. · leaf 1189
increase its breadth. The result-ants may evidently be represented by two forces, OD . . . andOA, . . . each equal to V2 X P- These tend to make thetwo halves of the cube slide relatively in the directions AD 1154 APPENDIX XI. and DA. This tendency is resisted by the plane AD, the areaof which is… … the dimensions of a unit of length become altered by theamount I: -♦I- If, therefore, the stresses are exerted along the diagonals ofthe cube {AOD and BOO) one of these diagonals, AOD forinstance, will be shortened, the other lengthened by theamount V 2 X ^ (sincethe change of length is…
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