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 51
ities may be extendedalso to the case of uniform accelerations, the methodbeing in all -respects similar to that in the precedingarticles. The sides of the parallelogram here representthe component accelerations, and the diagonal the re-sultant acceleration. The simplest application of the… … Fig. 18. a body falls in this direction if entirely free: but a bodyon an inclined plane is only free to slide along it, and theacceleration is here that component of the whole accele-ration which is parallel to the plane: viz., g sin a. Let (Fig. IS) ac be taken to represent the…
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