The Varignon frame, named after Pierre Varignon, is a mechanical device which can be used to determine an optimal location of a warehouse for the destribution...
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Working from a model akin to a physical frame adapted from some ideas by Pierre Varignon (a Varignon frame), Weber applies freight rates of resources...
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\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {w_{i}}{|x_{i}-y_{j}|}}}}} The Varignon frame provides an experimental solution of the Weber problem. For the attraction–repulsion...
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Faille, Paul Guldin, John Wallis, Christiaan Huygens, Louis Carré, Pierre Varignon, and Alexis Clairaut expanded the concept further. Newton's second law...
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Jacques Ozanam in Recreation mathematiques et physiques, vol. IV. Pierre Varignon's Nouvelle Méchanique ou Statique, published posthumously in Paris, includes...
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1725 introduction of the force polygon and funicular polygon by Pierre Varignon. Giovanni Poleni used the graphical calculations (and Robert Hooke's analogy...
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virtual work law appeared in his letter to Pierre Varignon in 1715, which was later published in Varignon's second volume of Nouvelle mécanique ou Statique...
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_{2}}\tau \,\mathrm {d} \theta } The principle of moments, also known as Varignon's theorem (not to be confused with the geometrical theorem of the same name)...
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unlike any more general moments, is a "free vector". (This fact is called Varignon's Second Moment Theorem.) The proof of this claim is as follows: Suppose...
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geometry to solve structural problems. In 1717 Jean Bernoulli wrote to Pierre Varignon explaining the principle of virtual work, while in 1726 Daniel Bernoulli...
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Statics (section Varignon's theorem)
&f_{0j}\\f_{01}&...&f_{1j}\\...&...&...\\f_{i0}&...&f_{ij}\\\end{array}}\right)} Varignon's theorem states that the moment of a force about any point is equal to...
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developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies Pierre Varignon (1654–1722) – priest and mathematician whose principle contributions were...
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duc de Choiseul, French general and diplomat (b. 1602) 1722 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654) 1761 – Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell...
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in hopes of a reunification between Catholicism and Lutheranism. Pierre Varignon (1654–1722): French mathematician and Catholic priest known for his contributions...
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