| William Hallows Miller - Fluid dynamics - 1831 - 124 pages
...limits ; .-. pressure on BPC=gpX. (area BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below... | |
| William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 498 pages
...fluid, is as the square of the velocity ; and (putting v — velocity in feet, in a second) it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the plane, and height — . And, in a globe, it is but half 64 so much. 5. The friction of a fluid... | |
| Thomas Webster - Physics - 1837 - 512 pages
...Hydrostatia, Art. 33. L2 the following simple terms : — ' The pressure of a fluid on apy surface is the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the surface pressed, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - Fluid mechanics - 1837 - 516 pages
...fluid pressure demonstrated in the first chapter, that the force of the fluid against d: — Is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the point d, and altitude the perpendicular depth of that point below the tipper surface ofthefluid.... | |
| John Charles Snowball - Hydrostatics - 1838 - 114 pages
...conclusion may be drawn. The pressure exercised by 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... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 380 pages
...of these, is proportional to the depth. 75. The pressure on any surface immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the surface pressed, and height equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface... | |
| Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 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 th at which is due to the velocity of the motion, or through which... | |
| London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...HYDROSTATICS, &c., OPTICS. Examiner, Mr. JERKARD. 1 . Show that the pressure of a fluid on any surface is the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the surface pressed, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the... | |
| Artizan club (London, England) - Steam engineering - 1847 - 338 pages
...which a quiescent fluid oppose* 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 game as that which is due to the velocity of motion ; that is, the height... | |
| John Curr - Railroads - 1847 - 194 pages
...The real resistance to a plane, by 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... | |
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