 | Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller - Fisica - 1847 - 612 pages
...vessel in which it is contained is quite independent of the form of the vessel, and is always equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the bottom of the vessel, and whose height is the vertical distance from the bottom to the surface... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1851 - 346 pages
...real resistance to a plane, from a fluid acting in a direction perpendicular to its face, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the plane, and altitude equal to that which is due to the velocity of the motion, or through which... | |
 | John Bourne - Propellers - 1852 - 360 pages
...motion must be equal to the weight or pressure which generates that motion, which it is known is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the surface and altitude, the height through which a body must fall to acquire the given velocity.-"... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...whatever be its shape, sustains a pressure equal to the weight of the superincumbent fluid, or equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the bottom, and height equal to the distance from the bottom to the surface — equal to the... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1853 - 462 pages
...pressure exerted upon any surface by a heavy fluid is equal to the weight of a cylindrical or prismatic column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the centre of gravity of the surface below the tipper surface... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Garden structures - 1853 - 916 pages
...in a vessel is in a quiescent state, every particle is pressed in every direction with a force equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the particle pressed, and whose altitude is equal to the depth of the particle below the surface :... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel, Karl Friedrich Peschel - Physics - 1854 - 314 pages
...vessel, and this tendency is made apparent by the upward pressure against the lid or covering. This pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid (water), whose base is equal to the superficial content of the lid, and its height equal to the difference... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...plane, or on the same level. 2. The pressure perpendicular to a surface immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area A of the surface, and whose altitude is the perpendicular depth of the centre of gravity of... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Science - 1856 - 598 pages
...vessel in which it is contained, is quite independent of the form of the vessel, and is always equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the bottom df 'the vessel, and sliose height is the vertical distance from the bottom to the surface... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1859 - 368 pages
...surface is the base. Hence, the vertical component of the pressure on any element of the surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the horizontal projection of the element, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the element from... | |
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Or, by art. 249 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
