Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 49
rder to sup-ply the necessary central forcesuppose the weight mg is resolvedinto a component, _FC, which issufficient to secure the motion ofthe particle m in a circle of radius,and a component, N<> which iscounterbalanced by the reactionof the vessel transmitted throughthe liquid. When the… … Fig. 25. (38) r tan c/> P2g = const. ■±7T~ s. Now r tan cf> is the subnormal AC of the point on the curve,whose value is thus shown to be independent of the positionof the point. As this is a well-known property of the parab-ola, it follows that the surface assumed by the liquid is…
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