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 150
drawn through them. The path from P6 to P is a straight line. 136. Problem.—OX is a vertical axis, and OA theinitial position of a rod which turns about 0 in a planecontaining OX until it has described an angle which isdouble the angle AOX, the point 0 during the same timemoving along OX to 0. If… … 136 PRACTICAL PLANE GEOMETRY chai\ The point has three component motions : (1) a motionalong the rod; (2) an angular motion about O with therod ; (3) a motion due to the point O sliding down 00. Divide 00 into a number of equal parts, say eight ;also divide OA into half the number, that is four…