SECOND METHOD OF
ANALYSIS
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is
equal
to
Ma
and
its direction is the same
as that
of
a;
and
the
moment
of the
couple
is
equal
to
la.
The
facts stated
in
the above
proposition, together
with
certain
additional
facts,
are
discussed and
applied
in
the
following
pages,
in
connection
with
the
use of inertia
forces.
It
was found
in
the
preceding
article that
the
expressions
Mra.
and
Mr&
2
represented
the
T-
and
TV-components, respectively,
and
that
IQO.
represented
the
moment,
of
the resultant of the
effective force
system
for the
rotating body.
From these
expressions,
the
resultant of
the
effective forces for various conditions of motion
may
be
determined
completely.
Thus,
it will be noted that
if
f
is
zero
in
these
expres-
sions,
that
is,
if
the distance
from
the
axis
of rotation
to
the mass-
center
of the
body
is
zero,
then each of the
components,
Mra
and
Mru>
2
,
of the resultant of the effective forces is
zero.
Hence,
the
resultant is not a force.
And,
since the
effective forces
have a
moment,
the
value
of which is
loa,
the resultant
is a
couple
of
moment
loot
or
la
since
/o
i's denoted
by
/
when the axis of rotation
passes through
the
mass-center
of
the
body.
The sense of the
resultant
couple
is,
of
course,
the same
as
that of
a,
the
angular
acceleration of the
body. Further,
since the
resultant of the
external forces that act on
the
body
is
identical with that of the
effective forces for the
body,
the
body may
be considered to be
in
equilibrium
if
an additional
couple having
a
magnitude
equal
to
la
and a
sense
opposite
to that of
a
is assumed to act on
the
body
with the external
forces.
This
couple
is
often called
the reversed
effective
couple
or the inertia
couple
for the
body.
If
the
body
rotates about
an axis
which does not
pass
through
its
mass-center,
as indicated
in
Fig.
350,
then
f
in
the above
expressions
is not zero.
The resultant
of
the
effective
forces
for
the
rotating
body,
then,
is a
single
force
since
Mra
and
Mrco
2
express
the
components
of the resultant
force,
the
moment
of
the
resultant
force
(or
of
its
two
components)
being
expressed by
loa.
The action
line of each
of the
two
components
may
now
be
located.
The
action line
of
the
normal
component,
Tlfrco
2
,
of
the resultant
force
lies
along
the line
connecting
the
center of rotation and
the
mass-center of
the
body,
that
is,
along
the
TV-axis
as shown
in
Fig.
350.
This
fact
may
be
proved
as
follows:
Mru
2
was
obtained
by
resolving
the
components
ma
t
and ma
n
,
of the effective
force
for
each
particle,
parallel
to
the TV-axis
and
determining
the
algebraic
sum
of these
TV-components
(Art.
146).
And,
it was
shown