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 298
erpendicular to the plane,which tends to force the weight through it, and the otherparallel to the plane, which tends to draw the weightalong parallel to it. The action of the force of gravity in the first place iscounteracted by the resistance of the plane, whilst in thesecond place the body… … Fig. 97 a horizontal surface, the greater will be the portion ofweight supported by the surface. Let the plane beelevated toward the perpendicular and it will supportless and less of the weight, till when it reaches an exactperpendicular it will be supporting no part of the weightat all. Fig. 97…
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