Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 43
ally to the axle, as forinstance in the treadmill andwater-wheel. Sometimes, asin the case of the capstan,the power is applied to spokes fixed in the axle, which represent semi-diameters of the wheel ; in other cases, as in the windlass, the handle isrigidly fixed to the axis. In all its… … Fig. 20, On Matter, Force, and Mot ion. [42- Thus resistance as the radius of the axle is to the radius of the wheel,in fig. 21, P : Q = ab: rt^, or P x a^ = Q x ab. Frequent applications of wheels of different diameters are met with inwhich the motion of one wheel is transmitted to another, either…
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