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 167
be conveniently employed to obtain the resultant of anumber of forces acting at a common point. Let theforces P, Q, S, T (Fig. 74) be represented by AB, AC,AD, AE, and let X and Y be any two axes at right an- 148 STATICS, [140, gles to each other passing through A. The componentsof P, Q, S, T are,… … Fig. 74. site direction to the others. The algebraic sum of eachset of these components will give the components of theresultant along the respective axes. If a, a, a, aiv are the angles which each of theforces makes with the axis X, all measured in the samedirection as indicated in the figure…
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