The American house-carpenter : a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs : together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1849)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 158
erefore far preferable. This and the preceding examples exemplify, in a measure, the resolution of forces ; viz., the finding of two or more forces, which, acting in different directions, shall exactly balance the pressure of any given single force. Thus, in Fig. 185, supposing the weight, W, to be… … C Fig. 189. 252. — The composition of forces consists in ascertaining the direction and amount of one force, which shall be just capable of balancing two or more given forces, acting in different directions. This is only the reverse of the resolution of forces, and the two are founded on one and…
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