Well's natural philosophy : for the use of schools, academies and privte students, introducing the latest results of scientific discovery and research ; arranged with special reference to the practical application of physical science to the arts and the experiences of everyday life ; with three hundred and seventy-five engravings (1873)
Wells, David A · New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co. · leaf 85
trifugal Force. The Centrifugal Force, however, increases with the velocityof revolution, so that if the velocitj of the wheel were contin-ually increased, a point would at last be reached, when tlieCentrifugal Force would be more powerful than the force ofcohesion, and the wheel would then fly in… … Btones, revolving rapidly, not infre-quently break from this cause, and thepieces fly off with immense force ancivelocity. When we whirl a mop, the waterflies otf from it by the action of theCentrifugal Force. The fibers, orthreads, which compose the mop, alsotend to fly off, but being confined…
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