Notes and examples in mechanics; with an appendix on the graphical statics of mechanism; (1903)
Church, Irving P. (Irving Porter), 1851-1931 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 48
e pressure on B is verti-cal and = Q. The weights of wedge andblock are neglected. There is supposed tobe no friction, otherwise \\z results wouldbe quite different (see § 9 of Graph. Stat.of Mechanism, in this book, and p. lYl, M. of E.). Given Qand a^ what force P must be applied horizontally at… … Fig. 45. 40 NOTES AND EXAMPLES IN MECHANICS.
