 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 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... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...the vessel containing it, or of any other surface, real or imaginary, in contact with it, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that particle, and whose height is equal to its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. 4. If,... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Mechanics - 1864 - 204 pages
...mercury. It has been shown that the pressure of a fluid on a horizontal plane immersed in it was equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the plane, and whose height is the depth of the plane below the surface of the fluid. The pressure... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Hydrostatics - 1864 - 188 pages
...conclusion may be drawn : — The pressure of a fluid, on any horizontal plane placed in it, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the plane, and whose height is the depth of the plane below the horizontal surface of the... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1866 - 520 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 beloio the upper surface... | |
 | 1867 - 224 pages
...advantage. 9. The difference of pressures on a given small area at different depths in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the given area and whose height is the difference of depths. Show how the principles of hydrostatics,... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1870 - 326 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 the horizontal projection of the element, and whose altitude is the distance of the element from the... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1870 - 408 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... | |
 | Samuel Newth - 1871 - 152 pages
...plane surfaces applies also to curved surfaces. The total pressure of a fluid upon any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the area of the given surface, and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface... | |
 | Engineering - 1873 - 1078 pages
...which a quiescent fluid opposes to a plane surface moving through it with a given velocity, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the plane, and altitude the same as that which is due to the velocity of motion ; that is, the height... | |
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Or, by art. 249 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
