Elementary Mechanics ... Part I [- II].

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Page 21 - A force has been defined to be that which changes or tends to change the state of a body in respect to rest or motion.
Page 100 - Any system of forces, (the directions of which lie in one plane,) acting upon a rigid body, may be reduced to a single force, and a single couple.

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