 | Mechanical engineering - 1874 - 1186 pages
...6. The pressure of a fluid on any surface, whether vertical, oblique, or horizontal, is equal to thi weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and height eqftal to the dis tance of the centre of gravity of that surface below the upper horizontal... | |
 | Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne - Merchant marine - 1874 - 222 pages
...evident from the nature of fluid pressure, that the force of the water against the small area S, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the rectangular material point £, and altitude the perpendicular depth of that point below the upper... | |
 | University of Oxford - Greek language - 1879 - 414 pages
...1:2:3; ^n<i *^e density of the mixture. 6. Shew that the pressure on a plane area immersed is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area, and altitude the depth of the centre of gravity of the area below the surface. A triangle... | |
 | Samuel Newth - Mechanics, Analytic - 1879 - 370 pages
...weight of a column of the fluid whose base equals the area of the given surface, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below the surface of the fluid. Ex. 1. To find the pressure on a rectangular plane i0 in. by 4, when... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 624 pages
...instant of time to he displaced, the resistnnce experienced by the moving surface may be considered equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the surface pressed, and whose height is that which is due to the velocity; that is to say, the resistance... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1885 - 996 pages
...\ / / Call the required distance P. We know the total pressure upon a submerged surface to be equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal in area to the surface pressed and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the center of gravity... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Fluid mechanics - 1885 - 324 pages
...projection of CE on EB ; ic, the pressure exerted by a fluid in any direction upon a surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the projection of the surface at right angles to the given direction, and whose height is the depth... | |
 | William A. Morrison - Steam engineering - 1887 - 224 pages
...depth, or vertical height. Any given area, in any given section of a containing vessel, is pressed equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area pressed, and whose height in equal to the distance of the centre of gravity of that area, below... | |
 | Rutgers University. College of Agriculture - 1887 - 222 pages
...resist the water-pressure. The pressure exerted by a fluid in any direction upon a surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the projection of the surface at right angles to the given direction, and whose height is the depth... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook - Hydrostatics - 1895 - 682 pages
...PROPOSITION 16. To shew that the resultant thrust on any plane surface under fluid pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the surface and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface. Let... | |
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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... 
