 | John Martin Frederick Wright - Astronomy - 1831 - 282 pages
...Explain the action of a syphon. 3. The whole pressure on any surface immersed in a fluid, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and its height equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of that surface below the surface of the fluid.... | |
 | William Hallows Miller - Fluid dynamics - 1831 - 124 pages
...limits ; .-. pressure on BPC=gpX. (area BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the surface, and altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface below... | |
 | John Martin Frederick Wright - Astronomy - 1833 - 332 pages
...cylindrical column of the fluid, whose base is the surface pressed, and altitude the perpendicular depth of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed below the surface of the fluid. Required a proof. 3. A given rectangle is immersed vertically in a fluid, having... | |
 | William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 498 pages
...fluid, is as the square of the velocity ; and (putting v — velocity in feet, in a second) it is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the plane, and height — . And, in a globe, it is but half 64 so much. 5. The friction of a fluid... | |
 | Thomas Webster - Physics - 1837 - 512 pages
...Hydrostatia, Art. 33. L2 the following simple terms : — ' The pressure of a fluid on apy surface is the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the surface pressed, and whose height is equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Fluid mechanics - 1837 - 516 pages
...fluid pressure demonstrated in the first chapter, that the force of the fluid against d: — Is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the point d, and altitude the perpendicular depth of that point below the tipper surface ofthefluid.... | |
 | John Charles Snowball - Hydrostatics - 1838 - 114 pages
...conclusion may be drawn. The pressure exercised by a fluid on any horizontal plane placed in it, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is the area of the plane, and whose height is the depth of the plane below the horizontal surface of the... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 380 pages
...of these, is proportional to the depth. 75. The pressure on any surface immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the surface pressed, and height equal to the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 pages
...real resistance to a plane, from a fluid" acting in a direction perpendicular to its face, is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the plane, and altitude equal to th at which is due to the velocity of the motion, or through which... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...whose base is equal to die surface pressed, and its altitude equal to half the depth of the fluid, or the depth of the centre of gravity of the surface pressed below the surface of the fluid. From the same principles we also readily derive the following properties : I.... | |
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BPC) ; or, the pressure of a fluid on any surface is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid... 
