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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    Oh goodness, here's the whole paper online: http://www.ee.adfa.edu.au/staff/hrp/Literature/historicalpapers/ongovernors.pdf
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    I have poured over this paper again and cannot find anything similar to your first equation that might work for the two leftmost diagrams. However, immediately following what I quote above, I find this: One root of the [cubic equation above] is evidently a real negative quantity. The...
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    Ah-hah! In this paper, I have a description of Jenkin's Governor (forgive me, I'm trying to figure out this formatting thing)... So perhaps that would be the label for the two diagrams on the right (although I would need to define a, b, and beta I'm thinking, yes)? I'll look through...
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    Well, here is what Maxwell says: It will be seen that the motion of a machine with its governor consists in general of a uniform motion, combined with a disturbance which may be expressed as the sum of several component motions. These components may be of four different kinds :— 1. The...
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    The scale can be anything we want it to be. The diagrams were created by a graphic designer based on text descriptions in the document ("oscillation of continually increasing amplitude", etc.). Now that I look at it, the diagrams are somewhat suspect where T=0, that should probably be an...
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    Bigger diagram... ...attached for your viewing pleasure.
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    Can Anyone Help Identify the Formulas for These Steam Engine Diagrams?

    Need some help. I studied math a million years ago and my boss thinks I still remember anything about diff EQ besides my professor's haircut. I don't. I have these diagrams (http://www.dubberly.com/stage/Maxwell2.jpg and attached). I need to label them with appropriate formulas. I have a...
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