 | William Marrat - Mechanics - 1810 - 512 pages
...multiplied into the distance of the centre of gravity from the centre of motion, the quotient will be the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension. Let BD (fig. 204.) represent an orthographic projection of the body upon a plane perpendicular to the... | |
 | William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...each side be equal. If the pendulum be an inflexible rod, every where of equal size, it is found, that the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension is two-thirds of the length of the rod. If, whilst a pendulum is in motion, it meets with an obstacle... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...several experiments relating to the materials of which pendulums might be formed, in 1/15. Its rod is made of brass, and branched towards its lower end,...from the point of suspension invariably the same. Mr. Graham made a clock of this kind, and compared it with one of the best of the common sort, for... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 632 pages
...mercury, more mercury must be poured into the vessel : if the expansion of the mercury exceeds thai of the rod, so as to occasion the clock to go fast...from the point of suspension invariably the same. ' Mr. Graham made a clock of this sort, and compared it with one of the best of the common sort, for... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 582 pages
...mercury must be taken out of the vessel, so as to shorten' the column. And thus may the expansion snd contraction of the quicksilver in the glass be made...from the point of suspension invariably the same. :' Mr. Graham made a clock of this sort, and compared it with one of the best of the common sort, for... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 604 pages
...of these centres in various bodies. Previous to this, however, we may here shew how ' 307. To find the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension experimentally. Suspend the body proposed very freely by the given point, and make it vibrate in small... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 456 pages
...5:2:: 3-1416лг : •5236л;* :: 6 : x = 2'4. And, from Dr. Hutton's Dictionary, то!. 1, page 268, the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension will be found = 9-8 inches. Therefore д/9-8 : \/39% :: 60 : 120 the number of vibrations made in one... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1819 - 444 pages
...the centre of oscillation, and the vibrations in both positions will be performed in equal times. Now the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension, depending on the figure of the body employed, if the arrangement of its particles be changed, the place... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...centre of oscillation, and tlie vibrations in both positions will be performed in equal times. Now, the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension, depending on the.figurc ef the body employed, if the arrangement of its particles be changed, the place... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...centre of oscillation, and the vibrations in both positions will be performed in equal times. Now, the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension, depending on the//£we of the body employed, if the arrangement of its particles be changed, the place... | |
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... the rod, so as to occasion the clock to go fast with heat, some mercury must be taken out of the vessel, so as to shorten the column. And thus may the expansion and contraction of the quicksilver in the glass be made exactly to balance the expansion... 
