A hand book of general instruction for mechanics, containing useful rules and memoranda for practical men (1907)
Smith, Franklin Elijah, 1872- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 234
s 4 inches long, equals 16 inches, thendivide by 2, because there are two plates, and thequotient is the length of each plate. Thus: 113.097616 2)129.0976 64.5488 inches = length of each plateAbout 5.379 feet. Ans. Example. The outside diameter of a tube which ismade of three plates is 4 feet, each… … Fig. 34 Now, as this tube is made of three equal sections, thewhole circumference divided by 3 will equal the lengthof each section from A to B, and to this length must beadded the length of the laps, If inches, and the sumwill equal the whole width of each plate. Thus: 150.7968 + 1.75 = 52.0156…
Mechanics · Arithmetic · Measurement
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