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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 72
of the base ; it must,therefore, lie where this line pierces the auxiliary plane: Hence, the centre of gravity of any pyramid whateverlies on a line drawn from its vertex to the centre of gravityof its base, and at one-fourth of the distance from the baseto the vertex. A cone is a pyramid having an… … 70 MECHANICS. Centre of Gravity of Prisms and Cylinders. ©*>. Any prism whatever may be regarded as made upof layers parallel to the bases. If a straight line be drawnbetween the centres of gravity of the two bases, it will passthrough the centres of gravity of all these layers. Thecentre of…Mechanics
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