IV. On some elementary principles in animal mechanics. No. X (concluding the series). Further illustrations of the 'law of fatigue.' | Zendy

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IV. On some elementary principles in animal mechanics. No. X (concluding the series). Further illustrations of the 'law of fatigue.'

Author(s) -

Samuel Haughton

Publication year - 1880

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society of london

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.814

H-Index - 135

eISSN - 2053-9126

pISSN - 0370-1662

DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1879.0132

Subject(s) - series (stratigraphy) , mathematics , law , geology , political science , paleontology

The following experiments were made upon Dr. Alexander Mac-alister, at intervals from November, 1877, to May, 1879, and consisted in observing the lengths of time during which the extended horizontal arms, with supinated hands holding equal weights, could be held out:— The following results were obtained, in which w denotes the weight held in the hand in pounds; andt , the time, in seconds, of holding out before fatigue stopped the experiment:

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