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 540
on to this rule will prevent mistakes. 417. Properties of the link polygon. Conditions ofequilibrium of coplanar forces. (a) Partial resultant. The resultant of any portion of the systemfor which the vectors are consecutive in the force polygon can readilybe found. Thus the resultant of BC, CD is… … N/E (/>) Moment of the system about any point A. Througli K drawa line parallel to ae to meet the links A, E in Aw Ew Draw os per-pendicular to ae. Then the required moment = AQE0 x os, the scales being determinedas in Prob. 414. (c) Partial moment. The moment of any part of the system forwhich…