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 177
ed to find the pressure it exertson each of the legs at A, B, and C. Draw AD, BE, CF, eachthrough the point 0; then P_BF P_EC 9l-^_ Q~~AF S~AE an 8~DB {) 158 STATICS. [150. But since the triangles AFC, FBC, as also AFO, BFO, have thesame altitudes, BF BFC BFO BOO AF Similarly, and Therefore AFC ~~… … ■* Q Fig. 82. DC, etc., and therefore equation (1), remembering, also, thatP-\- Q + 8 — W, would give the numerical solution. If the point 0 is situated at the intersection of the three linesdrawn from the vertices to the middle points of the opposite sides,then obviously P=Q = 8=iW. (See also 166,…
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