 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
 | Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr.) - Gold mines and mining - 1885 - 358 pages
...or sides of a vessel or reservoir, the surface level of which is kept constantly at the same height, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...falling through a space equal to the depth of the opening below the surface of the fluid, and is expressed as follows : * The experiments were made by... | |
 | Engineering - 1885 - 566 pages
...or sides of a vessel or reservoir, the surface level of which is kept constantly at the same height, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...falling through a space equal to the depth of the opening below the surface of the fluid, and is expressed as follows : In which v— velocity in feet... | |
 | Augustus Jesse Bowie - Gold mines and mining - 1885 - 352 pages
...or sides of a vessel or reservoir, the surface level of which is kept constantly at the same height, is equal to that which a heavy body would acquire...falling through a space equal to the depth of the opening below the surface of the fluid, and is expressed as follows : In which z>=velocity in feet... | |
 | Leander Miller Hoskins - Hydraulic turbines - 1906 - 292 pages
...nearly equal to the velocity acquired by a body falling freely from rest through a vertical distance equal to the depth of the orifice below the free surface of the water. Let h denote the depth of the orifice below the free surface, and v the velocity of the jet;... | |
 | David Allan Low - Mechanics, Applied - 1909 - 568 pages
...which a body would acquire in falling freely from rest under the action of gravity through a height equal to the depth of the orifice below the free surface of the liquid. If the jet be directed vertically upwards, as shown to the left in Fig. 727, the liquid will... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1845 - 712 pages
...the water in repose, the height of the wave crest above the plane of repose, if we take the velocity which a heavy body would acquire in falling through a space equal to half the depth of the fluid (reckoning from the ridge of the wave to the bottom of the channel), that... | |
 | Geology - 1863 - 482 pages
...water which pours over the dam. If there were no friction, the lower stratum should have a velocity equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through a space equal to the height of the water above the dam. The upper stratum has only the velocity of the stream, combined... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 628 pages
...surface to bottom is constant, we have found that the velocity of propagation of such wave would be equal to that which a heavy body would acquire in falling through half the depth, a formula well known to those familiar with the subject, and which the editor of Engineering... | |
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