| William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...half the pressure on au equal surface at the bottom XR ; which pressure (by Prop I. and III ) is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface ZC^, and whose height is the depth of the stream. Therefore the pressure against the surface... | |
| John Robison - Astronomy - 1822 - 736 pages
...contraction, by requiring an augmentation of velocity, employs a part of the impelling force precisely equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the contracted passage, and whose height is the fall which would produce a velocity equal to this augmentation.... | |
| Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...same time. PROP. 4. — The force oj a stream of watir against any plane obstacle at rest, is equal to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the stream ; and height the space destended through by a falling body, to acquire that velocity.... | |
| Industrial arts - 1858 - 648 pages
...object in the absence of any horizontal motion ! Nor is it hydrostatic pressure, which pressure is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface pressed, &c.; this pressure is that sustained by dock gates with a head of water on one side... | |
| William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1825 - 506 pages
...the fluid against the plane. 2s Cor. \ . The force of a stream of water against any plane, is eyual to the weight of a column of water, whose base is the section of the stream, and height !!£. ; or the height of the water, if it flow 2s through a hole... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 474 pages
...smaller, or larger, than the cylinder GH, the body of water supported by the workman is always equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface of the piston Б, and depth the distance £ F above the surface of) the water In the well.... | |
| 1829 - 522 pages
...suction-pump, and, exclusive of the weight of the piston and its rods and the effects of friction, it is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the distance of the level of the water in the barrel AC... | |
| William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1832 - 366 pages
...inches in 12 feet length. The resistance which is opposed to a pump rod in raising water, is ~equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and height the height of the surface of the water in the body of the pump above the surface of the water... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1832 - 402 pages
...suction-pump, and, exclusive of the weight of the piston and its rods, and the effects of friction, it is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the distance of the level of the water in the barrel AC,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1835 - 374 pages
...suction-pump, and exclusive of the weight of the piston and its rods, and the effects of friction, it is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the distance of the level of the water in the barrel AC,... | |
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