An elementary treatise on mechanics, embracing the theory of statics and dynamics, and its applications to solids and fluids (1849)
Smith, Augustus William, 1802-1866 · New York, Harper · leaf 185
on from the point A, in thedirection ANY, and t the timein which the body will describeAN=y, with the uniform veloci-ty v, if gravity do not act. LetAM.=x be the space throughwhich the body will fall in thetime t by the action of gravity.Completing the parallelogramMN, the actual place of thebody… … 162 DYNAMICS. which the body must fall to acquire the velocity of projection(55), v2=2gh, which, substituted in (a), gives y*=4hx, (62) the equation of a parabola referred to the oblique axes AX,AY; and, since 4h is the parameter to the diameter throughA, h is the distance from A, the point of…
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