 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1807 - 212 pages
...projecting spokes thai answer the same purpose as awheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis : or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1811 - 196 pages
...projecting spokes that answer the same purpose as a wheel, as in fig. 15. 71. The advantage gained, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illustration. If the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 pages
...will be in equilibrio. Father. The second mechanical power is the Wheel and Axis> which gains power in proportion, as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; this machine may be referred to the principle of the lever. AB (Plate in. Fig. 22.) is the wheel,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 268 pages
...ascent, the rope to coil more than once the length- of the axis, because the advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is -greater than that of the axis ; so thatt if the circumference of the wheel be 12 times greater than that of the axis, 1 pound... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 pages
...the bucket is raised with much less difficulty. The velocity of the circumference of the wheel is as much greater than that of the axle, as it is further...circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve times... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 pages
...as their respective diameters ; consequently the advantage gained, by this mechanical power, is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis, or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Hence the velocity... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 pages
...the wheel is as much greater than that of the axle, as it is further from the centre of motion ; foil the wheel describes a great circle in the same space...circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power twelves times less... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - 1826 - 308 pages
...in the same space of time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increasedfin the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle.j If the velocity of the wheel is twelve times greater than that of the axle, a power nearly twelve... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 236 pages
...fastened to it, (Jig. 13,) or of a cylinder with projectingspokes,(/g. 14.) 74. The advantage gained is in proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axis ; or as the diameter of the wheel is greater than the diameter of the axis. Illus. If the diameter... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1827 - 234 pages
...for the handle describes a circle as it revolves, while the straight piece which is united to G 6 131 the axle corresponds with the spoke of a wheel. This...the length of the axle, the difference between its circumference and that of the wheel is necessarily diminished. To the principle of the wheel and axle... | |
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... time that the axle describes a small one, therefore the power is increased in the same proportion as the circumference of the wheel is greater than that of the axle. If the velocity of the wheel is... 
