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)
dies 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 the other at the centreof gravity, and… … 44 MATTER, FORCE, MOTION, AND MECHANICS. distance that the centre of gravity, or the weight of the body, must beelevated in order to overturn the block. ^^. Figure 9. Fig. 9.
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