A Treatise on the Theory of Screws

Forfatter: Sir Robert Stawell Ball

År: 1900

Forlag: The University Press

Sted: Cambride

Sider: 544

UDK: 531.1

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 412 [375, THE THEORY OF SCREWS. and as 0/, 02', &c., are indefinitely small, this reduces to ^ = 0, where T7, is a homogeneous function of 0lt 02, ... 0n in the second degree. For the study of the permanent screws we have, therefore, n equations of the second degree in the co-ordinates of the instantaneous screw-chain, and any screw-chain will be permanent if its co-ordinates render the several differential coefficients zero. We may write the necessary conditions that have to be fulfilled, as follows:— Let us denote the several differential coefficients of T with respect to the variables by I, II, III, &c. Then the emanant identity is ØJ + ØJI+03111+..^O, and we may develop any single expression, such as III, in the following form :— in = innfc + iii22^ + + aiu.M +... 211MA As th© cnianant is to vanish identically, wo must have the coefficients of 0i202) ØiØ-203, &c„ all zero, the result being the several terms, such as 0^, three types of equation— In = 0, I22 + II12 = 0, i23+iiis+iii12 II22 = 0, 1111 + 112 = 0, &c., in33 = o, Us + IU23 = 0, &c., IV« = 0, &c., &c. &c. = 0, Of the first of these there are n(n — 1), and of the third, n^n , -n aj^ 1.2.3 classes of equations, Iu = 0, there are n, of the second n (n +l)(n+2) 1.2.3 ‘ 376. Another identical equation. Let T be the kinetic energy of a perfectly free rigid body twisting for the moment around a screw 0. It is obvious that T will be a function of the six co-ordinates, 0/,... 0e', which express the position of the body, and also of 01; ... 0e, the co-ordinates of the twist velocity, T=f(01',...06/, 01)...06). \\ e may now make a further application of the principle employed in § 362. The kinetic energy will be unaltered if the motion of the body be arrested, and if, after having received a displacement by a twist of amplitude e about a screw of any pitch on the same axis as the instantaneous screw, the body be again set in motion about the original screw with the original twist velocity. This obvious property is now to be stated analytically.