Mathematics for Practical Men: Being a Common-place Book of Principles, Theorems, Rules, and Tables, in Various Departments of Pure and Mixed Mathematics, with Their Application; Especially to the Pursuits of Surveyors, Architects, Mechanics, and Civil EngineersE. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834 - 427 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xi
... canals , over weirs , & c . , with various tables - Table of rise of water occasioned by piers of bridges and other contractions Contrivances to measure the velocity of running waters Effects of the old London bridge on the tides , & c ...
... canals , over weirs , & c . , with various tables - Table of rise of water occasioned by piers of bridges and other contractions Contrivances to measure the velocity of running waters Effects of the old London bridge on the tides , & c ...
Σελίδα xii
... canals , and turnpike roads ACTIVE AND PASSIVE STRENGTH . - Active strength , or animal energy , as of men , horses , & c . Schulze's experiments , Coulomb's , Bevan's , Morisot's , Regnier's , Hachette's , Tredgold's , & c . Passive ...
... canals , and turnpike roads ACTIVE AND PASSIVE STRENGTH . - Active strength , or animal energy , as of men , horses , & c . Schulze's experiments , Coulomb's , Bevan's , Morisot's , Regnier's , Hachette's , Tredgold's , & c . Passive ...
Σελίδα 103
... to the motion of cannon balls , of barges on canals , of carriages on rail roads , & c . and may indeed be applied to the planetary motions . CHAPTER III .. PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY . Definitions . 1. COMPUTATION OF FORMULE . 103.
... to the motion of cannon balls , of barges on canals , of carriages on rail roads , & c . and may indeed be applied to the planetary motions . CHAPTER III .. PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY . Definitions . 1. COMPUTATION OF FORMULE . 103.
Σελίδα 168
... therefore the ruler A P be so moved as that the nail D passes along the canal D D , the style , or point in A , will describe the first conchoid . Conchoids of all possible varieties may also be constructed with 168 CURVES : CONCHOID . ·
... therefore the ruler A P be so moved as that the nail D passes along the canal D D , the style , or point in A , will describe the first conchoid . Conchoids of all possible varieties may also be constructed with 168 CURVES : CONCHOID . ·
Σελίδα 303
... canals . The improvement in the present syphon is , that the exhausting pipe is enlarged to the same diameter as that of the syphon , and its mouth is widened out to something of a funnel shape , as in the figure . In putting it into ...
... canals . The improvement in the present syphon is , that the exhausting pipe is enlarged to the same diameter as that of the syphon , and its mouth is widened out to something of a funnel shape , as in the figure . In putting it into ...
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Σελίδα 10 - Yard, when compared with a Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch...
Σελίδα 11 - Mile {1 Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth An Inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics the Inch is commonly divided into eighths. By the officers of the revenue, and by scientific persons, it is divided into tenths, hundredths, &c.
Σελίδα 14 - MEASURE OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes = 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = I Lunar Month 28, 29, 30, or 31 Days = 1 Calendar Month 12 Calendar Months...
Σελίδα 41 - The mean proportional between two numbers is equal to the square root of their product.
Σελίδα 42 - That is, in any proportion, either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Σελίδα 60 - To divide a polynomial by a monomial, divide each term of the polynomial by the monomial: (Sab — 12ac) -i- 4a = 36 — 3c.
Σελίδα 21 - Operations with Fractions A) To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, simply multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction and add the numerator.
Σελίδα 249 - ... 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 and contraction of the pendulum rod, so as to preserve the distance of the centre of oscillation from the point of suspension invariably the same.
Σελίδα 14 - CIRCLE. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute. 60 Minutes = 1 Degree. 30 Degrees = 1 Sign. 90 Degrees = 1 Quadrant. 360 Degrees, or 12 Signs = 1 Circumference. Formerly the subdivisions were carried on by sixties ; thus, the second was divided into 60 thirds, the third into 60 fourths, &c.
Σελίδα 42 - In a series of equal ratios, the sum of the antecedents is to the sum of the consequents as any antecedent is to its consequent.