A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition : in Two Volumes, Volume 2W. E. Dean, 1831 |
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... parabolic reflectors illuminated by Argand lamps were afterwards substituted as more convenient ; but from want of power they appear in turn to have gradually fallen into disuse . With a view to remedy this detect , a series of ...
... parabolic reflectors illuminated by Argand lamps were afterwards substituted as more convenient ; but from want of power they appear in turn to have gradually fallen into disuse . With a view to remedy this detect , a series of ...
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... parabola , and the hyperbola ; the properties of all which may be deduced with facility from the preceding general equation . Or this equation may be transformed into the subjoined one : 2 ++ + ς δх2 + 6х + α 5 a 0 : and this again may ...
... parabola , and the hyperbola ; the properties of all which may be deduced with facility from the preceding general equation . Or this equation may be transformed into the subjoined one : 2 ++ + ς δх2 + 6х + α 5 a 0 : and this again may ...
Page 117
... parabola . When r is taken upon a diameter , the equa- tions reduce to those already given in sect . 4 , ch . 1 . The mode of effecting these transformations is omitted for the sake of brevity . This section contains a sunmary , not an ...
... parabola . When r is taken upon a diameter , the equa- tions reduce to those already given in sect . 4 , ch . 1 . The mode of effecting these transformations is omitted for the sake of brevity . This section contains a sunmary , not an ...
Page 120
... parabolic one which has no asymptote . ART . 11. All the legs of curves of the second and higher kinds , as well as of the first , infinitely drawn out , will be of either the hyperbolic or the parabolic kind : and these legs are best ...
... parabolic one which has no asymptote . ART . 11. All the legs of curves of the second and higher kinds , as well as of the first , infinitely drawn out , will be of either the hyperbolic or the parabolic kind : and these legs are best ...
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... parabola ) tend . If the legs are of the hyperbolic kind , let Gas be their asymptote ; and to it GE C Q d X D t T TP A B TS C let the parallel cuc be drawn , terminated ( if possible ) at both ends at the curve . Let this parallel be ...
... parabola ) tend . If the legs are of the hyperbolic kind , let Gas be their asymptote ; and to it GE C Q d X D t T TP A B TS C let the parallel cuc be drawn , terminated ( if possible ) at both ends at the curve . Let this parallel be ...
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Page 13 - In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 469 - Or, by art. 249 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Page 74 - To prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (see fig.
Page 299 - The workmen thought that substituting part silver was only a proper <perquisite; which taking air, Archimedes was appointed to examine it ; who, on putting...
Page 158 - MECHANICAL POWERS are certain simple instruments employed in raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistance than could be effected by the direct application of natural strength. They are usually accounted six in number; viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 249 - BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid...
Page 301 - In the doctrine of fluxions, magnitudes or quantities of all kinds are considered as not made up of a number of small parts, but as generated by continued motion, by means of which they increase or decrease ; as a line by the motion of a point ; a surface by the motion of a line ; and a solid by the motion of a surface.
Page 254 - Weigh the denser body and the compound mass, separately, both in water, and out of it ; then find how much each loses in water, by subtracting its weight in water from its weight in air; and subtract the less of these remainders from the greater. Then...
Page 494 - The reason is, all bodies lose some of their weight in a fluid, and the weight which a body loses in a fluid, is to its whole weight, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body.
Page 461 - ... horizontal *. 2. The theorems just given may serve to show, in what points of view machines ought to be considered by those who would labour beneficially for their improvement. The first object of the utility of machines consists in furnishing the means of giving to the moving force the most commodious direction ; and, when it can be done, of causing its action to be applied immediately to the body to be moved. These can rarely be united : but the former can be accomplished in most instances...