 The velocity of a fluid issuing from an orifice in the bottom of a vessel kept constantly full, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through a space equal to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the fluid...  The Civil-engineer & Surveyor's Manual - Page 34by Michael McDermott - 1879 - 586 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1870 - 398 pages
...breadth of a wave is very great in comparison with the depth of water, the velocity of its progress is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling by gravity through half the depth of the liquid. The velocity of such a wave for different depths of... | |
 | David Craik - Hydroelectric power plants - 1870 - 470 pages
...horizontal shaft, and if properly made is supposed to give a velocity at the wheel equal to that which any heavy body would acquire in falling through a space equal to the height of the fall, except a slight reduction for4he resistance of the air, and friction against the... | |
 | george ripley - 1874 - 854 pages
...is made in the side of a vessel containing a liquid, the liquid will issue from it with a velocity equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through the vertical distance between the surface of the liquid and the orifice. If the jet is directed upward,... | |
 | Lowis D'Aguilar Jackson - Hydraulics - 1875 - 598 pages
...Second. The velocity of a fluid issuing from an orifice in the bottom of a vessel kept constantly full, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...space equal to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the fluid, which is called the head on the orifice ; or by way of formula where H = the... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 pages
...of the atmosphere, rushes through an orifice into a vacuum with a velocity (= 1339 feet in a second) equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through a height equal to that of a homogeneous atmosphere. Thus, also, knowing the temperature of steam, and... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Mechanical engineering - 1880 - 1184 pages
...is made in the side of a vessel containing a liquid, the liquid will issue from it with a velocity equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through the vertical distance between the surface of the liquid and the orifice. If the jet is directed upward,... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Mechanical engineering - 1880 - 1004 pages
...is made in the side of a vessel containing a liquid, the liquid will issue from it with a velocity equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through the vertical distance between the surface of the liquid and the orifice. If the jet is directed upward,... | |
 | Lowis D'Aguilar Jackson - Hydraulic engineering - 1883 - 518 pages
...— The velocity of a fluid issuing from an orifice in the bottom of a vessel kept constantly full, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...space equal to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the fluid, which is called the head on the orifice ; or by way of formula by the spherical... | |
 | Lowis D'Aguilar Jackson - Hydraulics - 1883 - 580 pages
...— The velocity of a fluid issuing from an orifice in the bottom of a vessel kept constantly full, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...space equal to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the fluid, which is called the head on the orifice ; or by way of formula where if = the... | |
 | Lowis d'Aguilar Jackson - Hydraulic engineering - 1883 - 566 pages
...— The velocity of a fluid issuing from an orifice in the bottom of a vessel kept constantly full, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...space equal to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the fluid, which is called the head on the orifice ; or by way of formula where 7f=the head... | |
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