 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1881 - 1002 pages
...observations, and hence a and b are the quantities tobe derived from the equations. The quantity a becomes the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissae, and b the distance from the origin to where the lino intersects the axis of ordinales. In... | |
 | Institute of Physics and the Physical Society - Physics - 1876 - 674 pages
...according to which resistance comes to be represented by the slope of a straight line (that is, by the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissae), was lately employed by M. Crova* for the discussion of experiments relating to the degree... | |
 | United States - 1882 - 1078 pages
...observations, and hence a and 5 are the quantities to be derived from the equations. The quantity a becomes the tangent of the. angle which the line makes with...axis of abscissas, and b the distance from the origin to where the Hue intersects the axis of ordinates. • In the determination of coefficients the observations... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - Engineering - 1881 - 1034 pages
...observations, and hence a and b are the quantities to he derived from the equations. The quantity a becomes the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissas, and ft the distance from the origin to where tho line intersects the axis of ordinates. In the determination... | |
 | Physics - 1875 - 1118 pages
...according to which resistance comes to be represented by the slope of a straight line (that is, by the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissae), was lately employed by M. Crova* for the discussion of experiments relating to the degree... | |
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In this equation n is the tangent of the angle which the line makes with the axis of abscissas, and B is the intercept on this axis from the origin. 
