An elementary treatise on mechanics, embracing the theory of statics and dynamics, and its applications to solids and fluids (1868)
Smith, Augustus W. (Augustus William), 1802-1866 · New York : Harper · leaf 53
les each tothe planes passing through the other two, the parallelopipedwould be rectangular, and we should have,G2=L*+Ma+N\ CHAPTER IV. ANALYTICAL STATICS IN TWO DIMENSIONS. In this chapter the points of application and the directionsof the forces will be referred to co-ordinate axes at right… … at which they act be taken for the origin of co-ordinates.Let P, make the angle a, with OX, and /3X with OY.P2 a2 0a P3 « a3 03 « &c, &c, &c, P„ an A, If OA represent the force P^and the parallelogram OMANbe completed, OM will be the component of P, in OX, andON that in OY. And cos. aj,…
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