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Treatise on natural philosophy (1912)

Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907, Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845-1912, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 353

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re, that so far asvertical displacements alone are concerned, the equilibrium isnecessarily stable, unless the body is wholly immersed, whenthe area of the plane of flotation vanishes, and the equilibriumis neutral. Dispiwo- 766. The lemma of § 763 suggests that we should take, as rotation the two… … di.splaced centres of gravity of the solid, and of the portionof its volume which was immersed when it was floating inequilibrium, and 0, E the positions which they then had;all projected on the )>laue of the diagram which we suppose tobe through / the centre of inertia of the plane of…

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