 | Richard Wormell - Mechanics - 1869 - 270 pages
...application of the force and the other perpendicular to this plane, the product of the latter component by the perpendicular distance of the point of application of the force from the line, is the moment of the force about the line. It is evident, that if the point of application of... | |
 | John Prescott - Dynamics of a particle - 1913 - 550 pages
...the other component is along PQ. 57. VVe have defined the moment of a force about a point as being the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point • from the force. Now we know that the force F reversed in direction would exactly balance F, and... | |
 | Melville Baker Wells - Bridges - 1913 - 282 pages
...forces in one plane being considered. Moments.—The moment of a force with respect to any point is the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point from the line of action of the force. In ordinary examples the forces are considered in one plane,... | |
 | Milo Smith Ketchum - Bridges, Iron and steel - 1914 - 958 pages
...— The moment of a force about a point is its tendency to produce rotation about that point, and is the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point from the line of action of the force. Couple. — A couple is a pair of equal and opposite forces having... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Hall, Frederick Ernest Archer, R. I. Gilbert - Statics - 1999 - 312 pages
...If a force acts on a body, then the moment of the force about any point in its plane is defined as the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point from the line of action of the force. The moment of the force F about the point O in Figure 4.1 is:... | |
 | RS Khurmi | JK Gupta - Technology & Engineering - 2005 - 1092 pages
...turning effect produced by a force, on the body, on which it acts. The moment of a force is equal to the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point about which the moment is required, and the line of action of the force. Mathematically, Moment of... | |
 | RS Khurmi | JK Gupta - Technology & Engineering - 2005 - 1278 pages
...turning effect produced by a force, on the body, on which it acts. The moment of a force is equal to the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point, about which the moment is required, and the line of action of the force. Mathematically, Moment of... | |
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The moment of a force is equal to the product of the force and the perpendicular distance of the point, about which the moment is required and the line of action of the force. 