A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)
Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 116
bodyrests and the height of the centre of gravity above the base.In estimating the size of the base of an object it must benoticed that, for the purpose of stability, the base consistsof the whole area included by straight lines which con-nect the outermost supporting points all around.… … FIG. 57. compare the angle traversed by the centre of. gravity of asquare prism, A (Fig. 57), 1 cm. square and 10 cm. long,placed on end and then overturned, with the angle traversedunder similar conditions by the centre of gravity of a de-cimeter cube, B. The block A will not of itself…
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