Steam engines, a thorough and practical presentation of modern steam engine practice (1920)
Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875-, American Technical Society · Chicago, American technical society · leaf 169
e weight. It does not, how-ever, add to the centrifugal force, andhence the moment of this force is un-changed. It may then be said that theweight adds effect to the weight of thegovernor balls but not to the centrifugalforce, and as a consequence the height ofthe governor for a given speed is… … Fig. 89; Porter Improved Typeof Fly-Ball Go {W+W) -(v)- *=(»^+n.(^)^ {W+W)rg Wx4:7ir^Ny w STEAM ENGINES 153 Since it is known that .8146 X- .8146 W / • ■ ( iV)2 Hence the height of a weighted governor is equal to the height of (W-\-W\ / W\——— I, or (l+TjT-) For instance, if the height of a simple…
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