A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc. (1878)
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871, Du Bois, A. Jay (Augustus Jay), 1849-1915, Buel, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), b. 1842 · New York. J. Wiley & Sons, 1878- · leaf 30
is neutralized by that ofthe other. Fig. 599 represents such a pen-dulum, consisting of five iron bars A B, A B,EF, EF, KL, and of four brass bars CD, CD,G H, G H. The pendulum, to fulfil its pur-pose, must be so arranged that the downwardexpansion of the iron bars shall be equal tothe upward… … pendulum,LO L = /. /», and if we take the coefficient of expansion ofthe iron = (5^,, and that of the brass = d„, andlet / be the change of temperature, then thecorresponding length of the pendulum can beput, / = /, (i -f f^, /) - /, (r + d\ /). Hence the increase of length is In order that this…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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