Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860- · Madison, Wis. · leaf 51
. plane, and the other DG perpendicular to this face. The formerof these components DF, acting in the direction of motion, causes the change in the ve-locity of the body as it movesdown the plane. The lattercomponent DG, acting per-pendicularly to the face ofthe plane, has no part orcomponent in… … Fig. 28. Acceleration on the iuclineflplane. D F I) F . , or, D F - g sin <^. The body, therefore, moves down the inclined plane, not withthe entire acceleration g, but with the fractional part of thisacceleration denoted by sin <^, that is, with the accelerationg sin ^. The four expressions,…
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