Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
e of grav-ity of its vertical support; therefore, insearch of support it will begin to fall, and continue to descend in thedirection of the dotted line L, which is parallel to the inclined plane. This figure also shows that the reason why a wheel or ball is so easilymoved over a horizontal plane… … Fig. 8. ^S- Figure 8.—Stability of bodies depends upon theposition of the centre of grav-ity.—Suppose the diagram to repre-sent a cube of Avood, iron, or stone,with its centre of gravity indicatedby the dot at the centre. Place one foot of the dividers atthe lower left hand corner of thecube and…
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