 | Isaac Dalby - Mathematics - 1806 - 526 pages
...the velocity v, or to (V— v]* x v. In estimating the force of the stream upon tlic floats, we take a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface of one float only, because the section of the impinging stream which is perpendicular to the direction... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...the fluid. 271. Carol. 3. 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 PROPOSITION... | |
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - Astronomy - 1809 - 408 pages
...experienced. If a fluid acts only by its weight, its entire pression is equal to the weight of a prism of the fluid, whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and whose height is the distance of the centre of gravity of this surface from the level surface of the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 624 pages
...by a Dam or Siuice, made to fien ufi a Body of Water. By art. 3 1 3 Hydrostatics, (in this volume) the pressure of a fluid against any upright surface,...altitude the same as that of the surface. Or, by art. 3 14 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, •whose base is equal... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...pressure is the same against the bottom, as against its sides, or even upwards, at the same depth. 6. The pressure of a fluid against any upright surface,...the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the surface pressed, and its altitude the same as the altitude of that surface. 7. The pressure of... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...demonstrated that the resistance of a cylinder, which moves in the direction of its axis, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to that of the cylinder, and its altitude equal to the height through which a body must fall in vacuo,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 618 pages
...sustained by a. Dam or Sluice, made tofien ufl a J3ody of Water. By art. 313 Hydrostatics, (in this volume) the pressure of a fluid against any upright surface, as the gate of a sluice or canal, is equal vo half the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and its altitude... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Arithmetic - 1818 - 652 pages
...against one of the upright sides, or half the pressure against the whole upright surface. 313. Carol. 3. The pressure of a fluid against any upright surface,...whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and its aliitude the same as the altitude of that surface. For the pressure on a horizontal base equal to tin-... | |
 | 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
...against one of the upright sides, or half the pressure against the whole upright surface, 313, Cbrol. 3; The pressure, of a fluid against any upright Surface, as the gate of a sluice or canal, is equal io half th<* weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and its altitude... | |
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Or, by art. 3 14 of the same, the pressure is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, •whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and... 
