(^762) A Textbook of Engineering Mechanics
- of a body, on a fixed plane, 623
Initial tension of a belt, 754
Input of a machine, 189
Instantaneous centre, 506
Intensity of pressure, 789
Internal gearing, 765
International system of units, 4
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Kilogram, 5
Kinematics, 4
Kinetic energy, 669, 686
Kinetics, 4LLLLL
Ladder friction, 163
Lami's theorem, 56
Law of conservation of energy, 673- collision of elastics bodies, 610
- conservation of momentum, 609
- machine, 195
- moments, 28
- triangle of forces, 24
- parallelogram of forces, 18
- polygon of forces, 25
- simple pendulum, 591
- friction, 141, 142
Laws of motion, 533 - resultant force, 22
Lead of a screw, 177
Least distance between two bodies
moving along inclined directions, 455
Length of belt, 738, 740 - of a string, 374, 377
Levers, 36
Lifting machines, 189
Like parallel forces, 43
Limiting friction, 140
Linear acceleration of a rotating body, 500- velocity of rotating body, 499
Loss of K.E. during impact, 614
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Machine, 188
Magnitude of forces, 325
Mass, 532- moment of inertia, 681
Maximum acceleration of a body moving
with S.H.M., 526 - efficiency of a machine, 198
- efficiency of a screw jack, 182
- height of a projectile, 470
- length of a body floating vertically in
water, 826 - mechanical advantage of machine,
198 - tension in the belt, 749
- transmission of power by belt, 752
- velocity of a body moving with
S.H.M., 526 - velocity to avoid overturning of a
vehicle, 636 - velocity to avoid skidding away of a
vehicle, 637
Measurement of brake power, 658
Mechanical advantage, 189 - energy, 668
Metacentre, 819
Metacentric height, 819 - Analytical method, 820
Methods for balancing of rotating bodies,
643 - equilibrium for coplanar forces, 56
- centre of gravity, 79
- forces in frames, 270, 271
- magnitude and position of the result-
ant force, 43, 45 - moment of inertia, 101
- reactions of a beam, 240, 241
- relative velocity, 444