 | William Dealtry - Calculus - 1816 - 492 pages
...resistance opposed to a plane surface moving in a fluid, in a direction perpendicular to the plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the area of the plane, and height the space through which a body must fall by gravity to acquire its... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Hydrostatics - 1820 - 472 pages
...supposed that the resistance against a plane perpendicular to the direction in which it move, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the plane, and altitude equal to that through which a body must fall to acquire the velocity... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 680 pages
...of the fluid. 309, Corol. 5. The pressure of the fluid on any horizontal surface or plane, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that plane, and altitude is its depth below the upper surface of the fluid. PROPOSITION LXI. 310. When... | |
 | John Robison - Astronomy - 1822 - 766 pages
...fluid falling perpendicularly on an infinitely extended plane surface. This he demonstrates to be equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the vein, and whose height is twice the fall producing the velocity. This demonstration... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 936 pages
...surface, is equ.»l to the product of that portion by the depth and density of the fluid : "or it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the given surface and the altitude equal to the distance between the surface of the fluid and the centre... | |
 | Miles Bland - Hydrostatics - 1824 - 380 pages
...plane surface meets with, when directly and perpendicularly striking an indefinite fluid, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the plane, and altitude the height due to its velocity. Suppose therefore a=l, and z =... | |
 | William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1825 - 506 pages
...fluid, is as the square of the velocity ; and (putting vz= 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 running... | |
 | 1771 - 466 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," or, " if the resistance increases as the cube of the velocity;" it must be obvious, that,... | |
 | John Farrar - Dynamics - 1825 - 492 pages
...or pressure which generates that motion ; and which, it is known, is equal to the weight or pressure of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the plane, and its altitude equal to the height through which a body must fall by the force of gravity,... | |
 | John Martin Frederick Wright - Astronomy - 1831 - 282 pages
...Explain the action of a syphon. 3. The whole 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 surface pressed, and its height equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of that surface below the surface of the fluid.... | |
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BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
