 | George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 606 pages
...principally apply to the line when in this lituation. When fo fituated, there will be an equilibrium, 'when the power is to the weight as the height of the plane is to it's biife. In other words, the mechanical advantage is in proportion as the loiglk of the plane exceeds... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilkinson - Astronomy - 1799 - 390 pages
...logarithmic curve, which correfponds to the progreffive dccreafe of elafticity. III. INCLINED PLANE.— Power is to the weight, as the height of the Plane is to the length of its bafe, IV. The PULLEY.— In a fixed Pulley, the power is equal to the weight. In this no mechanical... | |
 | 1822 - 520 pages
...POISSON, § 97, 98. When the direction of the power is parallel to the plane, equilibrium exists, when the power is to the weight as the height of the plane to its length, or as the sine of the plane's inclination to the radius. If the direction ofthe power... | |
 | James Renwick - Physics - 1822 - 476 pages
...POISSON, § 97, 98. When the direction of the power is parallel to the plane, equilibrium exists when the power is to the weight as the height of •the plane to its length, or as the sine of the plane's inclination to the radius. If the direction of the power... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1824 - 224 pages
...power is equal to half the weight only. 39. In the inclined plane there will be an equilibrium, when the power is to the weight as the height of the plane is to the length. 40. In the wedge, the power will be to the weight as half the thickness of the wedge on the back is... | |
 | John Farrar - Dynamics - 1825 - 476 pages
...:: -^ • BL; that is, -.I'lu»i the direction of the power is parallel to the base of the inclined plane, the power is to the weight as the height of the plane to its base. From the proportion 9 : p : : sin ABG : cos A'Fq, we infer, as a general conclusion, that... | |
 | William Whewell - Mechanics - 1832 - 572 pages
...smooth inclined plane, and supported by a string parallel to the plane, will be in equilibrium when the power is to the weight as the height of the plane is to its length. Fig. 26. An inclined plane is a plane inclined to the horizon, as AC ; and its height CB... | |
 | James Renwick - Mechanics - 1832 - 560 pages
...(130) when the power acts parallel to the horizontal base ofthe plane, equilibrium will exist when the power is to the weight as the height of the plane to the length ofthe base. 163. The inclined plane is a mechanic power of a frequent, nay, of almost... | |
 | John Radford Young - Mechanics, Analytic - 1832 - 390 pages
...horizontal or parallel to the base of the plane then c = i, and the relation is P= Wtan. i, which shews that the power is to the weight as the height of the plane to the base. The Screw. (88.) Before we can investigate the mechanical power of the we must ascertain... | |
 | William Templeton (engineer.) - 1833 - 224 pages
...its perpendicular height ; hence, when the power acts parallel to the plane, the length of the plane is to the weight as the height of the plane is to the power. EXAMPLE ]. — Required the power capable of moving a weight of 300 Ibs. up an inclined plane... | |
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This proportion teaches us that, when in equilibrium, the power is to the weight as the height of the plane is to its length. 
