Wood, De Volson, 1832-1897. [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 163
te ; thenwill the centrifugal force be con-I stant, and at any point, as B, thedirection of motion will be that ofthe tangent BD. The centripe-tal force must be such as to drawthe body from the tangent BD adistance equal to DC in the same time that it wouldmove over BD. Draw EC and CG, and a chord… … TO ELEMENTARY MECHANICS. 155 V •since the motion in the arc is uniform; and since thecentrifugal force is constant, the space BE will begiven by equation (2), p. 12 of the text, or BE = }v% where v is the velocity which would be produced bythe centripetal force in passing over the space BE intime…
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