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File Name: comp_lever_36341
Description: "In compound levers, equilibrium is established when the power, multiplied by the first arms of all the levers, is equal to the weight multiplied by the last arms of all the levers." —Quackenbos 1859
Source: G. P. Quackenbos A.M. A Natural Philosophy: Embracing the Most Recent Discoveries in the Various Branches of Physics, and Exhibiting the Application of Scientific Principles in Every-day Life (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859) 99
Keywords: compound, lever, power, arm, weight, multiplied

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