Merchant, F. W. (Francis Walter), 1855-1937, Chant, Clarence Augustus, 1865-1956 · Toronto : Copp Clark · leaf 55
4, A rifle weighs 8 lbs. and a bullet weighing 1 oz. leaves it with avelocity of 1500 ft. per sec. Find the velocity with which the riflerecoils. 5. Sometimes in putting a handle in an axe or a hammer it is accom-plished by striking on the end of the liandle. Explain how the law ofinertia applies… … Fig. 36.—The moment of a force depends on In stormy weather, in order tokeep tlie ship on her coursethe wlieelsman grasps thewheel at the riui (i.e., asfar as possible from theaxis), and exerts a force atright angles to the linejoining the axis to tliepoint where he takes hold.(Fig. 36.) From our…
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