differs from but by an infinitely small quantity; again, forming with , the angle , we shall have[1]
[6]
therefore[2]
[7] ^ —ydx - . -^^1"^
d6=-^-^-. ., r.„„ r.., ,-. [7]
If we vary the force by , supposing constant, we shall have the corresponding variation of the angle , by changing in the preceding equation into , into , into , which gives[3]
[8] J. xdy
supposing, therefore, and to vary at the same time, the whole variation of the angle will be — ^ — | — ; and we shall have
[9]
Substituting for z^ its value 3^ -{-if, and integrating, we shall have[4]
to the powers of d6, by Taylor's Theorem [617], or by any other way, will be of the form A — k.dd-{-J(/ .d(P — etc. — A;, /fc', etc. being constant quantities, dependant on the first, second, etc. differentials of (p {^nr). By this means, do/' [4] will become d3cf' = z' .{A — kdd-{-^d(P — etc.]. Now it is evident, that when dx = 0, the quantities da/' and dd must also vanish; and the preceding expression will, in this case, become = z .A, or ^ = 0. Substituting this value of A, we get generally djc"= 2/^ — k d 6 -- Jcf d (f^ — etc.} ; and by neglecting the second and higher powers of d &j it becomes as above, dx" = — kdd .z'.
- (8) As in note 5.
f (9) By putting the two values of [5, 6,] equal to each other, and deducing therefrom the value of .
J (10) As d is changed into - — 6, the differential dd changes into — dd.
§ (I J ) By die substitution of ar^ + ^ for z^, the equation becomes — ^—7^ — = kd6'j
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or, as It may be written, -— - =:kdL for the differential of the numerator of the first
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