Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 85
ere were nofriction, take the mean between the two values now recorded. Then 72 PHYSICS. find the L that would correspond to this value of H, L being the dis-tance along the inclined scale from the hinge to the point of crossingthe vertical scale. P W H L Going up. ..8 oz. 16 oz. .... .... down..8… … Fig. 51. The line W is not here, as it is in Fig. 49, the hypothe-neuse of the dotted triangle; but it is evident that thedotted triangle is similar to the triangle made up of X, B,and H. P is the force applied parallel to the base, and justsufficient, with N> to balance W. We have, from a…
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