Gage, Alfred P. (Alfred Payson), 1836-1903, Fessenden, C · Toronto : W.J. Gage · leaf 82
ectelasticity. Figure 47 represents a number of elastic hoops enclosed iathe vessel ABCD. A weight, placed on a, communicates toit a downward pressure. It is evident, that not only is thepressure communicated to the hoops below it in succession, andfinally to the bottom of the box, but there is… … 66 IVVXAMICS. n, and downward upon d; d and n in turn transmit pressure totheir adjacent hoops, and thus every hoop receives and trans-mits, upward, downward, andhiterally, a force equal to thedownward pressure of the weightW. Hence that portion of thel)ottom immediately under theweight receives no…
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