This hypothesis takes for granted that a rigid body can be moved in all directions in space without changing in measure.
Or, to state the inverse of this hypothesis, in space those parts are called equal which a rigid body occupies, no matter how it is moved about.
Between the 2n coordinates of any point-pair of a rigid body, there exists an equation which is the same for all congruent point-pairs.
Any motion of a rigid body can be reduced to a screw motion about a certain line, i.
The displacement of a rigid body is simply a mode of defining to the senses a one-one transformation of all space into itself.
The idealrigid body is one in which the distance between any two points is invariable.
The statics of a rigid body rests on the following two assumptions:-- (i) A force may be supposed to be applied indifferently at any point in its line of action.
In the wide realms of space the earth is but as a particle; it surely was a natural and a legitimate assumption to suppose that that particle was a rigid body.
We know from experiment that a rigid body in the mathematical sense of the word does not exist.
The mass of the sun, or at all events its greater part, is quite unlike a rigid body, and the several portions are thus to some extent free for independent motion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rigid body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
