 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...HYDROSTATICS, &c., OPTICS. Examiner, Mr. JERKARD. 1 . Show that the pressure of a fluid on any 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... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - Steam engineering - 1847 - 338 pages
...which a quiescent fluid oppose* 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 game as that which is due to the velocity of motion ; that is, the height... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller - Fisica - 1847 - 612 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... | |
 | John Curr - Railroads - 1847 - 194 pages
...The real resistance to a plane, by 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 that which is due to the velocity of the motion, or through which... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Geometry - 1848 - 312 pages
...oblique, is equal to the weight of a column of water, the base being equal to the surface pressed, and the altitude equal to the depth of the centre of gravity, of the surface pressed, belowthe lop or surface of the fluid. PROBLEM I. In a vessel filled with water, the sides of which... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1851 - 346 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 that which is due to the velocity of the motion, or through which... | |
 | John Bourne - Propellers - 1852 - 360 pages
...motion must be equal to the weight or pressure which generates that motion, which it is known is equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is equal to the area of the surface and altitude, the height through which a body must fall to acquire the given velocity.-"... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...whatever be its shape, sustains a pressure equal to the weight of the superincumbent fluid, or equal to the weight of a column of the fluid whose base is equal to the area of the bottom, and height equal to the distance from the bottom to the surface — equal to the... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1853 - 462 pages
...pressure exerted upon any surface by a heavy fluid is equal to the weight of a cylindrical or prismatic column of the fluid whose base is equal to the surface pressed, and whose altitude is equal to the distance of the centre of gravity of the surface below the tipper surface... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Garden structures - 1853 - 916 pages
...in a vessel is in a quiescent state, every particle is pressed in every direction with a force equal to the weight of a column of the fluid, whose base is the particle pressed, and whose altitude is equal to the depth of the particle below the surface :... | |
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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... 
