Taggart, William Scott · London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. · leaf 95
vement is clearly there. The reason for actualmovement not occurring is that the rod is balanced or in 84 TEXTILE MECHANICS equilibrium, and if the weight W is multiplied by the distanceX it will be found to be equal to the product of R x /. .•. W X X is the moment of force W rd. A in a clockwise… … ^m. moments may be called positive ( + ), whilst if the tendency torotation is anti-clockwise the moments may be called negative( —). As these two sets of moments are equal to each otherwe can formulate the statement that clockwise moments = anti-clockwise moments. We may now consider the rod as…
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