Practical plane and solid geometry for advanced students, including graphic statics, adapted to the requirements of the South Kensington syllabus (1899)
Harrison, Joseph, Baxandall, George Albert · London Macmillan · leaf 148
omitted to avoid confusing the figure. The curve is an ellipse, and the circumscribing rectangleshould be drawn as shown, the points where the ellipsetouches the rectangle being determined. Thus to find thepoint of contact M. When the tracing-point is at M, P isat A, between 5 and 6, and P is at m… … Examples.—1. A point M has two component simple harmonicmotions of the same period and equal amplitudes of \V, indirections at right angles to one another ; set out to scale thecurves traced by M, the initial phases being (a) o and o ; (//)o and \ ; (c) o and y^. Atis. (a) a straight line ; (/) a…
