Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 29
th of an inch, to represent one pound, this is setoff as many times as the force contains pounds, m theexample taken, if we suppose the force exerted to be sevenpounds, and lay off from A to C seven tenths of an inch,then will A G represent the force both in direction and in-tensity. Resultant and… … n*. 7. several forces acting in different directions, it will not, ingeneral, move in the direction of any one of them. Forexample, if two men on opposite sides of a river tow a boatby means of a rope, as represented in Fig. 7, the boat willnot move either in the direction AJS, or A C, but it…
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