 | David Ames Wells - 1870 - 408 pages
...vessel in which it is contained, is quite independent of the form of the vessel, and is always equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the bottom of the vessel, and whose height is the vertical distance from the bottom to the surface of the... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1870 - 326 pages
...surface is the base. Hence, the vertical component of the pressure on any element of the surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the horizontal projection of the element, and whose altitude is the distance of the element from the free... | |
 | Samuel Newth - 1871 - 152 pages
...the direction of the pressure of the fluid. The pressure of a fluid upon any plane in contact with it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the given plane, and whose height is the depth of the centre oj gravity of the plane below the surface... | |
 | John Thurlow - 1871 - 90 pages
...of the fluid. Hence if the surface be plane, and placed horizontally in the fluid, the pressure upon it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid having the area for its base, and its height equal to the depth of the area below the surface. For... | |
 | Engineering - 1873 - 1078 pages
...which a quiescent fluid opposes 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 same as that which is due to the velocity of motion ; that is, the height through... | |
 | 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 surface... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1878 - 714 pages
...[25200.]— Pressure on Dock Gates.— The first fundamental law of fiuid pressure is that at any depth it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, of a height equal to that depth, and whose base is equal to the surface on which you want to find the... | |
 | 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 ABC is immersed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Newth - Mechanics, Analytic - 1879 - 370 pages
...and the centre of ABCD is also its centre of gravity. Therefore the pressure on the given plane is the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the given plane, and whose height is the depth of the centre of gravity of the plane below the surface... | |
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The pressure of a liquid on any surface immersed in it is equal to the weight of a column of the... 
