Elements of mechanism: elucidating the scientific principles of the practical construction of machines, for the use of schools, and students in mechanical engineering, with numerous specimens of modern machines, remarkable for their utility and ingenuity (1852)
Baker, T. (Thomas), d. 1871 · London, J. Weale · leaf 96
70 INCLINED PLANE AND WEDGE. CHAPTER VII. THE INCLINED PLANE, THE SCREW, THE WEDGE, AND CAMB PRODUCING MOTION BY SLIDING. 118. The Inclined Plane, in mechanism, is considered as a smooth, perfectly hard, and inflexible surface ; the iron rails on an ascending or descending gradient of a railway may… … w c parallel to the plane a c. Then, by Baker's Statics and Dynamics , Art. 7 4, — p : w : : B C : A C, that is, P : w : : the height of the plane : its length, or w x bc m P = - - CO- AC And, by the nature of virtual velocities, Art. 85. (5) Hid . p’s vel. __ w _ a c ^ w’s vel. p e c Example 1. —…
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