544 
Binomial theorem, 3 
Block brake dynamometer, 347 
Block brakes, 345 
Bob-weights, 427 
Bocorselski’s universal joint, 407 
Bollman truss, 200 
Bolster plate, 221 
Booms of open web girders, 234 
Booms or flanges, 217 
Borda’s mouthpiece, 460 
Bow’s notation, 36 
Bow-string girder, 233 
Box girder, 216 
Braced girders, 231 et seq. 
Bracing, overhead and sway, 247 
Bracing, secondary, 201, 236 
Brake strap, 282 
Brakes and dynamometers, 344 et seq. 
Brasses, tests of, 182 
Breaking load, 68 
Breast wheels, 486 
Bridge floors, 242 
Bridges, cantilever, 131 
Bucket, 499 
Bucket, Doble, 488 
Bucket, Pelton, 488 
Bucket pump, 499 
Bull engine, 293 
Buoyancy, centre of, 436 
Camber and deflection of girders, 223 
Cam follower, motion of, 397 
Cams, 397 
Cams, cyclindrical, 401 
Cams, interference in, 404 
Cams, rotating, 399 
Cams, sliding, 398 
Canal lock, time of filling, 450 
Cantilever, 89 
Cantilever bridges, 131 
Cantilever, deflection of, 113, 114 
Carnegie Z-bar column, 61 (Ex. 6) 
Centimetre, 2 
Centre, instantaneous, 17 
Centre of buoyancy, 436 
Centre of curvature, 9 
Centre of parallel forces, 44 
Centre of pressure, 47, 433 
Centre of stress, 47 
Centre, virtual, 17 
Centres of gravity, 45 
Centrifugal force, 19, 20 
Centrifugal force of revolving mass, 
414 
Centrifugal pumps, 512 
Centrifugal tension in belts, 369 
Centrifugal tension in revolving hoop, 
76 
Centripetal force, 19 
Centrode, 18 
Centroids, 45 
Chain gearing, 370 
Chain, Renold’s, 371 
APPLIED MECHANICS 
Coefficient of cubical elasticity, 66 
Chain, slider crank, 308 - 
Chain, swinging block slider-crank, 
Chain, turning slider-crank, 308 
Change speed gears, 389, 
Channels, flow of water in, 470 
Chézy’s formula, 465 
Circle, friction, 270 
Circle of curvature, 9 
Circular pitch, 375 — 
Circumferential pitch, 375 o 
Coefficient of contraction, 447 a 
Coefficient of discharge, 448 
Coefficient of elasticity, 66 
Coefficient of elasticity of volui 
Coefficient of fluctuation of e 
Coefficient of fluctuation of spe 
Coefficient of friction, 260. 
Coefficient of rigidity, 66 
Coefficient of transverse elasticit; 
Coefficient of velocity, 447 
Collars, friction of, 266 
Columns and struts, 162 e¢ seq. 
Combined plunger and bucket - 
502 
; 
Compensating lever on dynamor 
349 
Composition of forces, 34 
Composition of velocities and a 
‘tions, 17 
Compound strains and stresses, 
8eq.. a 
Compressibility of mercury, 431. 4 
Compressibility of water, 431 ; 
Compressive strain, 64, 65 
Compressive stress, 64, 65 
Concrete beams, reinforced, 109 — 
Conical valve, 506 
Connecting-rod, angular accelera' 
of, 30 us 
305 
comeing distribution of ¥ 
) 
Constant of integration, 7 
Construction of parabola, 10 
Continuous beams, 126 
Continuous delivery pump for — 
pressures, 503 
Continuous girders, advantsgaial 
disadvantages of, 130 
Conversion of space-, velocity-, a 
ration-time diagrams, 288 
Copper-aluminium alloys, tests of, | 
Copper-tin alloys, tests of, 183 
Copper-zinc alloys, tests of, 182 
Corrugated iron, 204 
Cottered joints, 17 
Counterbracing, 233 d 
Counter efficiency of a machine, 2 "i 
Coupled locomotives, 425 a 
Couples, 44 
Coupling, Oldham’s, 408 
