A course of experiments in physical measurement (1897)
Whiting, Harold, d. 1895 · Boston, D.C. Heath and Co. · leaf 381
y froman axis {bh) on wliich a body balances, it is only neces-sary to know the weight of the body ( W), the load(w), and its distance (aJ) from this axis. For an ex-periment (due to Prof Hall) in which this principleis applied, see Ex. 17 of the Elementary PhysicalExperiments, published by Harvard… … Fig. 173. apart. A screw with a micrometer head (c?) is ad-justed po that its point just touches the middle ofthe beam when a pan, m, is suspended from it by tirewires hk. The micrometer is then read. A load, Z,is next placed in the pan, and the micrometer is oncemore adjusted until it touches the…
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