Elements of mechanics: for the use of colleges, academies, and high schools (1859)
Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr · leaf 131
must be aj)plied to sustain the gun in a horizon-tal position? Am. 4.754 lbs. The Wedge. 100. The wedge is a solid, bounded by a rectangleBD, called the hack ; two equal rect-angles, AF and DF, called faces;and two equal isosceles triangles, calledends. The line FF, in which thefaces meet, is… … 128 MECHANICS. is applied normally to one face, and the other half normallyto the other face. Let ABC be asection of a wedge made by a planeat right angles to the edge. Denotethe power by P, and the resistanceopposed to each face by \R; denotethe angle BAC of the wedge by2s. Produce the directions…
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