Notes and examples in mechanics; with an appendix on the graphical statics of mechanism; (1897)
Church, Irving P. (Irving Porter), 1851-1931 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 16
value actiniron it at all times and in a vertical downward direction, the valuesof the pressures or pulls exerted upon it by neighboring bodiesdepend on the state (f motion of the bodies concerned, as well ason their weights. For instance, suppose that we wHsli to observethe effect, upon a block of… … Fio. 3. (bnt inextensible) cord, led off horizontally to the right and thenpassing over a frictionless and very lightpulley, J/, and fasten a 10-lb. weight,B^ to the end of the rio^ht-hand vertical portion, we find, by interposing a light p^ spring-balance between the two parts of the cord at A^…
