A text book of elementary mechanics, for the use of colleges and schools (1881)
Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 163
ents, whosedirections are given, all that is re-quired is to construct a parallelo-gram on those lines having theoriginal force as the diagonal.Thus, if (Fig. 64) AC = R andthe given directions are OX, OY,through C draw CD, CB parallelto the directions given; then AB, AD will be the components… … Fig. 64.
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